Chapter 329: There is no good feast
The next day, the four-wheeled carriage workshop began to work.
In the first round of construction, Jia Yun directly hired 500 helpers.
At this time, Jia Yun's ability to coordinate and command the project was already very rich.
The construction of the four-wheeled carriage factory and the glass factory in Xiaoqingshan Village was built under his command.
The projects in the early and middle stages of the Grand View Garden were also under his overall command.
These two projects are not much smaller than the construction of a four-wheeled carriage workshop in front of us.
Therefore, Jia Yun commanded with ease.
Five hundred mercenaries performed their duties, and the speed of construction was so fast that it flew up.
In just one morning, the foundation was built, and in the afternoon the upward building could be continued.
It is believed that it will only take a few days for the first houses to be built.
At this time, in addition to the workshop project, it is also very lively.
Although Jia Yun only recruited 500 mercenaries in the first batch, the number of people mobilized was not only 500.
If you want to build a workshop, you must use a lot of bricks, tiles, wood and stone, these raw materials were made by Jia Yun yesterday, and there will be a steady stream of people sending them over today.
Because of the huge quantity, these merchants who supply bricks, tiles, wood and stone must expand their production in order to supply.
To expand production, it is necessary to hire manpower.
At the same time, it is necessary to transport materials, right? Therefore, the business of the carriage and horse shop in the past two days has also been extremely hot.
So much so that there were not enough carriages and horses, and they even needed to mobilize carriages and horses from Linxian County.
The carriage workshop also has to take care of the three meals a day for the helpers.
I found three steamed bun shops alone, because one of them couldn't be supplied at all.
Even if you find three, all three of them still need to work overtime and hire people to get busy.
The daily need for vegetables is also a huge amount.
In short, as the workshop began to start, the business of the entire Ping'an County was mobilized at once.
The acceleration of commercial circulation means that there are business opportunities in the market.
With the start of a workshop, it seems that the entire business of Ping'an County has been revitalized.
In this regard, Cao An, the county leader, and Song Wen, the chief bookkeeper, were deeply disturbed.
Although this new county magistrate has only been here for a few days, the shock it has brought to them is too much.
They went from the original contempt, to the gnashing of teeth in the back, to the awe.
This carriage workshop is said to have been opened by Jia Yun, a child of the Jia family.
They all believe that the main family behind it must be the county magistrate Jia Huan.
And that dog official must have had another purpose in opening this carriage and horse shop.
It's just that they can't understand it for a while.
And at this moment, the new county order suddenly did another unexpected thing.
It turned out that the new county order gave a post to the four major families of Ping'an County and other thirteen gentry families, and a banquet was held at noon tomorrow in Qingfeng Building to invite the gentry of Ping'an County.
Originally, when a county parent official went to work, the local gentry wanted to jointly hold a reception banquet for the county magistrate.
When Jia Huan first arrived, they did prepare a reception banquet.
It's just that Jia Huan didn't go because of the assassination.
Then the next day, the county clerk and the chief bookkeeper were beaten by the people of the new county order.
The four major families in Ping'an County were in the same spirit, and as a result, the new county order offended the two families.
So the reception banquet was gone.
As a result, they didn't invite the county master, and now the county master actually wants to invite them in turn.
I really don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the county master.
Perhaps, it should have something to do with the implementation of the new law, right?
Since the new prefectural ordinance took office, many things have been done to promote the new law.
The first is to widely publicize the benefits of the new law throughout Ping'an County.
After the reform, taxes will be levied only once a year, and agricultural taxes, poll taxes, forced labor, and other miscellaneous taxes will all be included in this time.
As long as the tax is paid this time, the government will not be able to collect the tax again in any name in the future.
If there is a levy, the people can refuse to pay, and they can file a complaint with their superiors, and the highest can go to the capital to file a complaint with the emperor.
This alone has won the hearts of the people.
There are also taxes paid, which are directly replaced with silver taels.
In the past, when paying agricultural taxes, those errand servants would use some tricks to kick the spiers.
After the people who handed over the grain filled the grain, the officials who collected the grain often kicked the Hu with lightning speed.
It is necessary to ensure that Hu cannot be poured, but although Hu does not fall, but when he goes down, the part of the grain that is higher than Hukou will be spilled, and the people who hand over the grain are not allowed to recycle this part of the grain.
The common people often pay a lot more grain to complete the payment of agricultural taxes, but now that they have changed to pay silver taels, there will be no such loss.
These two things bring real benefits to the people.
And what made the people applaud even more was that the gentry had to pay for the grain like them.
It was more pleasing to see the gentry unlucky than to profit themselves.
The second thing is that the new county order has sent people to measure the land.
Although Song Wen, the main bookkeeper, only sent a few people down casually, the people sent down were only yin and yang, and there were not many actual actions.
But this news alone is enough for those gentry and wealthy families to make a noise.
And now the county order wants to entertain them, which is also related to the new law.
These gentry and wealthy families have not paid taxes for many years.
Now asking them to pay taxes is simply killing them.
Therefore, the four major families, as well as more than a dozen other gentry and wealthy families, after receiving the invitation from the county magistrate, all gathered together and began to set an offensive and defensive alliance.
All of them, all of them have sworn that no one is allowed to pay taxes.
All of them united, and I don't believe that the county lord can wipe out all of them.
For them, this is a matter of great importance to their children and grandchildren, and even if they risk their lives, they must not compromise.
The gentry paid for food in one piece, which harmed the interests of all the gentry.
And all the officials in the world are from the gentry, and as long as they are united, they do not believe that the current saint cannot be retracted.
At noon on the second day, the patriarchs of the four major families, as well as the heads of the other thirteen gentry, rushed to Qingfeng Tower.
The county magistrate invited them to a banquet, and they couldn't afford not to give this face, and they didn't dare not give it.
Before noon, the most powerful people in the seventeen Ping'an counties came to Qingfeng Tower early.
waited until noon, but did not wait for the county master, but heard bursts of exclamations on the street below.
They were all people with status, and although they were very curious, they also endured their curiosity, and no one got up and leaned against the window to watch.
But the next moment, an errand came up to the third floor to invite them down.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my lords invite you to go downstairs."
Well?
What the hell is this county master?
Obviously they said that they were going to have a banquet, but now that they are here, what are they telling them to do downstairs? (End of chapter)