Zhao Ming watched as people moved the grain bags into the warehouse. After checking the number with the person guarding the warehouse, he signed and secured the warehouse and locked the warehouse.
Seeing the warehouse full of food, not only the people outside, but also the spirits of the tribesmen were different, "Building Master, the girl is really amazing. She got so much food in just a few words."
Zhao Ming: "They were all bought with real money. Do you think you got them for free?"
"But that money also belongs to those masters. Isn't it almost as good as free money?" Bu Qu said happily, "There is food in the warehouse, so don't worry. Lord, our military camp will be built in two days, right?"
Zhao Ming asked: "Are those prisoners still obedient?"
"It was okay. A few ran away at first, but they were caught and killed before they could get very far. Later, they saw that we gave them food and didn't abuse them, so they just stayed there and stopped running. The military camp was built
The progress is also fast.”
Zhao Ming nodded and said: "Let them speed up and go to the fields to harvest after building the military camp."
Many people died in Xiping County. Although some crops in the fields were also damaged, there were still many people.
There was insufficient manpower, and it was not enough to recruit workers with food. They decided to use prisoners.
However, most of the fields were outside the city. If more than 300 prisoners were taken outside, they would probably run away. Zhao Ming did not want to waste a lot of manpower on supervision.
So you have to tame the people in the city first and then pull them out.
Sure enough, when the military barracks in the city were built, the prisoners were almost trained.
Zhao Ming divided the prisoners into three teams. One team was repairing damaged houses and streets in the city; one team was sent to Zhao's Wubao to help the people in Wubao harvest in the autumn; and the other team was in Xiping County to harvest those that had become
Crops from ownerless fields.
Zhao Hanzhang has already arranged the prisoners' work for the next six months. When the autumn harvest is over, they will be sent to the horse farm. Oh, no, it is to open up wasteland in the pasture, and the fields that have been taken back from the government office will also be prepared to plant winter wheat.
With three hundred people, there is still a lot of land that can be cultivated every day.
Zhao Hanzhang also knew that the most important thing at the moment was the autumn harvest, so he went to the fields with his sickle to experience life, and, by the way, to win the favor of the people in the city.
Fu Tinghan stood in the field with a bamboo hat and looked at her. He saw that she carefully cut with a sickle and then gradually became more skilled.
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Fu Tinghan lowered his head and looked at the sickle in his hand.
Zhao Hanzhang straightened up and saw it, and quickly asked: "Is it because the rice leaves are cut by hand? Why don't you wait for me on the ridge of the field and come back when I cut it to the other side."
Fu Tinghan shook his head, "I was just thinking, if one ear of rice is so small, what is the yield per acre?"
Zhao Hanzhang said: "We won't know until it is dried and weighed."
She also looked up at the golden rice and said, "It looks pretty good. It should weigh about five to six hundred pounds, right?"
Facts have proved that the data not estimated by farmers are very unreliable. After threshing and drying, this acre of land weighed only 223 kilograms.
Zhao Hanzhang looked unbelieving and asked Geng Rong, who came to report the number, "Did you weigh it wrong? How could it be so few?"
Geng Rong: "...Girl, this output is already pretty good."
Zhao Hanzhang scratched his head and looked at Fu Tinghan, "Do you still remember what the yield per mu is in our place?"
Geng Rong also looked at Fu Tinghan.
Fu Tinghan glanced at him, picked up Zhao Hanzhang's hand and wrote a rough number on her palm.
Zhao Hanzhang clicked his tongue twice, "This gap is too big."
She pondered for a moment and said, "In addition to seeds, we should also be able to increase yields by improving farming methods, right?"
Fu Tinghan nodded, "There is also wheat. In the Central Plains and the north, pasta is still the main food."
Geng Rong couldn't help but interrupt, "Girl, ordinary people mainly eat beans and rice."
Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan looked at each other, "Beans and rice?"
As expected, they are from a wealthy family, and they don’t even know about beans and rice. Geng Rong was thinking about explaining in detail when Zhao Hanzhang already touched his belly and said, "What is said is better than personal experience? Just in time, it’s time to have dinner. Let’s go.
Go out and have a meal."
Geng Rong remained silent.
Zhao Hanzhang took Fu Tinghan out to find dinner.
She directly pulled him to the two alleyways near the city gate.
Most of the people in the slums were relocated here after being moved out. Most of the houses here were empty. Zhao Hanzhang recycled the empty houses and distributed them. Some families only had orphans left, so she temporarily registered them and planned to wait.
In the future, it will be rented out when it becomes commercially available, and the income will be able to offset some of the cost of raising children.
The county government now has to raise so many orphaned children every day, and the expenses are quite high. Geng Rong knew that many people in the city were waiting and watching, waiting to see when Zhao Hanzhang could not make ends meet.
Even Geng Rong felt that Zhao Hanzhang would not be able to support him for long. So far, the work-for-relief work in the city has not stopped. According to Fu Dalangjun, they will dig ditches in the future. Instead of issuing a military order, they will still provide work-for-relief work.
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This is the same as
This was beyond Geng Rong's expectations and made Geng Rong even more worried. He felt that if this situation continued, Zhao Hanzhang might not be able to survive the winter.
Originally, it didn't matter to him who was in charge of the affairs of Xiping County. After all, Zhao Hanzhang was a woman, so she might not be able to last long, so it would be nice to change to someone else.
But thinking about the people he sees every day and the work he is doing now, it is undeniable that Geng Rong feels that Xiping County is full of vitality at the moment. Although it has just experienced a disaster, everyone is united and its situation is even better than that of his father and County Magistrate Fan.
Times are even better.
So he hesitated for a while and then said: "Girl, blind kindness may not be a good thing. The county government's income is limited, and work-for-relief can only be temporary. If it is too loose, it may not last long. When the policy suddenly drops, I'm afraid it will lead to serious consequences."
A lot of dissatisfaction.”
Zhao Hanzhang has tried his best to reduce the expenditure on work-based relief. It can be said that the income of an adult working for one day is enough to support two people. In her opinion, such wages are extremely low. If the wages are reduced again, she and Professor Fu will both
If you can't pass the hurdle in your heart.
Moreover, these public facilities will generate income in the future. Not to mention the construction of water conservancy projects, the official land under the county government will benefit a lot.
It's a pity that when winter is over, everyone will be busy working in their own fields, and Zhao Hanzhang will allocate a certain amount of land to them. By then, it will be difficult for Guantian to provide work-for-relief or recruit workers, because there will still be a shortage of people.
Zhao Hanzhang comforted Geng Rong, "I know it well. Don't worry, you won't be short of money or food."
She hasn't spent all the loot yet. After spending the loot, she still has money in her hands. The initial investment is already huge, so she is mentally prepared.
With a huge investment, the benefits will be even greater. The top priority is to win over people's hearts. If she can win over the people of Xiping County, this area will be her backing in the future.