The prefect will uniformly resettle the refugees. They will first register and issue temporary household registration documents. Twenty households will form a village. Then they will hire the refugees to build houses and then distribute the wasteland. No taxes will be collected for the first two years, so that the refugees can recuperate and live their lives.
Live it up.
All the refugees cried with joy and knelt down in front of the officials, shouting that the magistrate was Lord Qingtian.
All the refugees outside the city began to line up to register with the clerk and receive temporary household registration documents.
After receiving the household registration document, you can queue up for treatment at the free clinic shack set up at the city gate with the household registration document, and you can also receive two sets of medicine for free.
Then you can pick up old quilts and clothes donated by wealthy households in a nearby shack.
The porridge shack that provides porridge can still receive one meal of porridge every day until all the refugees have settled down.
The Xu family and other seven families lined up together and happened to be assigned to a village.
Immediately, a small official in charge of their village took them to a temporary village surrounded by wasteland. They selected capable laborers from these twenty households and began to build houses.
It is a simple house made of stone, adobe, and thatch, but it can be built quickly. Everyone worked together, and it took less than two days to build a house for twenty families.
During this period, everyone can continue to receive the donated porridge at the city gate.
Those responsible for building houses can also receive steamed buns specially distributed by the government.
The government only focuses on helping each household build three houses. If there is not enough room, they can slowly expand the house behind them.
As soon as the house was built, the officials evacuated, as did the porridge shacks at the city gate.
But the refugees have a place to stay, and they won't freeze to death in the coming cold winter.
More importantly, the refugees can enter the city with temporary household registration documents. The city will not exclude the refugees and will hire them to do any work. Everyone can work with their own strength, earn money, and buy food to survive this winter.
When spring comes next year and the flowers bloom, the government will distribute seeds. Then the food will be harvested and life will gradually get better.
After experiencing escape and life and death, everyone is easily satisfied and feels extremely lucky to be able to settle down.
Several families felt the same way, so they held a small meeting together that night and agreed that early tomorrow morning, all members of the family would go to the city together to look for work!
Those who are left at home are responsible for reclaiming wasteland.
Now that they have built a house and settled down, the families naturally live their own lives. They just go to the city to find work, and everyone is together to take care of them.
The arrangement for the old Xu family to enter the city was for Xu Chunhe and his son, Xu Chunshan and his son, Xu Dalang, and the Ma family, Zhou family and Zhang Xiulan to enter the city together.
The allocated wasteland was not much, so Old Man Xu and Xu Chunlin could slowly open it up at home, and more people would go to the city to find work and earn money so that they could purchase food and other supplies.
As for Mrs. Xu, she took the two little girls Xu Yinyin and Xu Wuya around to look for wild vegetables.
Before dawn, several people who were going to the city gathered at the entrance of the village, as well as people from thirteen other households in the same village. Everyone had company all the way and went into the city together.
The place they were assigned to live was not far from Fucheng, and they could enter the city in half an hour's walk.
When they arrived at the city gate, the genius was bright. When the city gate opened, they entered through the small door on the left. The city defenders checked their household registration documents one by one before letting them in.
Most of the people who come to the city today are settled refugees who come to the city to find work.
In the past, during the slack season, Xu Chunhe and others had gone to cities or towns to look for work. They knew that there was usually a special place in the city where people looking for work could go and stay, so that they could wait for work and not become headless flies.
Seems like running around.
So I asked people about the place with a shy face, and went straight there after entering the city.
When we arrived at the place, there were already a lot of people nestled under the low wall, including refugees and people from around the city.
At the beginning of Chen time, the city began to become lively with people coming and going.
Not long after, people started coming to the low wall.
The first one is to hire people to build houses, build large mansions, and move things around. Thirty people are needed, and they can work for a month.
People crowded around to promote themselves.
The steward's eyes were darting back and forth, and he could clearly tell that the refugees were different from other people. As if he had accidentally missed the refugees, he quickly picked up thirty people and left with them.
Later, several more people came looking for work, but they all ignored the refugees intentionally or unintentionally.
After several visits, the only ones left under the low wall were refugees.
This battle is not stupid, how can anyone not understand it?
Xu Chunhe sighed quietly, "They say they don't reject us, but how can people accept outsiders so easily?"
Xu Chunshan squatted with his legs crossed, looking at the road coming from the other end, biting a piece of grass in his mouth, "Brother, don't worry, you can always wait until you are alive."
Xu Chunhe glanced at him and wanted to say, what do you, the third child, know? In the past, you were too lazy to do the work in your own fields, let alone go out to find work. You bastard, you have never come out to find work. This is still a bride.
This is my first time sitting in a sedan chair.
Thinking like this, he couldn't help but sigh, and then smiled slowly, not knowing what he thought of.
"Wait, there's no point in waiting." Uncle Zhang sighed, if he couldn't find a job and didn't have money to buy food, he would still have to starve.
After a while, someone came over from the other end, looked around at the people squatting or standing under the low wall, and said, "We are on the dock, looking for some people to unload and load the goods. Is there anyone who can do it?"
Carrying a big bag is a strenuous job that most people cannot do.
But after finally coming to work, many people still stood up.
Uncle Zhang, Second Uncle Zhang, Xu Chunhe, and Zheng Tiechui are already very strong people. They haven't eaten anything at the moment and are singing in their stomachs. They probably won't use much strength, but they can grit their teeth and do it!
Xu Chunhe stood up, turned around and saw that the third child hadn't moved, so he couldn't help but give him a hand.
Xu Chunshan was worried about his wife and son and didn't want to go, but when his elder brother pulled him away, he still stood up.
These refugees were all very skinny. It was hard to tell who was good at work. The manager could only look at their heads and quickly picked out some people. Uncle Zhang and others were also picked based on their size.
Up.
Before leaving, they agreed to gather at the city gate in the afternoon to collect their work.
Xu Chunshan winked at his son, indicating that he must protect his mother, and then he followed her away.
The remaining people from several families watched them leave and continued to wait for work.
It's not early now, it's already mid-morning, and there's not much chance of survival.
Sure enough, everyone waited until noon, but could not find any work. They could only shake their heads and go back to the city gate to wait for others to finish their work and join them.
Before the city gate closed, Xu Chunshan and other people who had been working for a day arrived. Everyone left the city together and returned home before dark.
At home, Mrs. Xu, Xu Yinyin and Xu Wuya also worked hard all day. They found some wild vegetables, cooked wild vegetable soup, and waited for the people who came to the city to come back.
Those who had worked were tired and comfortable, and those who had been waiting for a day without work were not relaxed either. Everyone devoured a large bowl of wild vegetable soup, then slowly sat down to rest and talk about going to the city today.