When Shutong and Cui Yuan left, they couldn't help but look at the government officials and city gate officials with sympathy. When they found out that their young master had privately paid money to ask helpers to promote the recruitment of workers and settled in the land, they wondered if they would regret what they had done today.
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Cui Yuan closed his fan and patted his head, "Drive your car carefully and close your eyes."
He said calmly: "This idea came from Mr. Bai. He also said that he would hold up the sky if it fell. What does it have to do with me? Don't talk about me in your heart."
The book boy covered his head and said: "I didn't say young master..."
Cui Yuan planned to visit each county and stay for a few days, but when he was heading to the next county, someone had already arrived in Beihai County.
They stood at the city gate and looked up at the gate of Beihai County. They always felt that it looked worse than the counties they had visited before.
But already here, it was impossible for them to leave, so they formed a group and entered the city.
Their clothes were ragged, and the straw sandals on many of their feet were too short, and some were simply barefoot.
These people were skinny and skinny, and some of them were carrying children on their backs. They stood on the street in a daze for a while, not knowing where they were going.
But they looked around and found that the streets in Beihai County were quite clean, and at first glance, there was not a single beggar.
Everyone was overjoyed and couldn't help but look at the young man at the head.
The young man was also very thin, and his clothes were in tatters, but his face and neck looked cleaner than others. He thought for a while and said: "Since Beihai County is recruiting people to allocate land, it should be to go to the county government."
"Go to the county government..." Many people hesitated and refused to leave. "What if they don't divide the land and make us tenants?"
They have been refugees for some years. Some counties will recruit them for political achievements, but they will not allocate land to them. Instead, they will directly register them with their household registration, and then take them to some landlords. If they can be chosen, they will be recruited as tenants.
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But they have to pay a lot of rent, and they still don't have enough to eat. Not to mention that they don't even have a house, so their life is worse than being a refugee.
And some people are so thin that even the landlords don't like them. In the end, they still have to go to the streets to beg for food, but they are already on the household registration and are taxed every year, so they often have to run away and become refugees.
So they were very single and said, "In the worst case, we can run away again."
"I'm not always so lucky. Didn't those people from Daqiao Village escape last time? They were dragged away to serve. I don't know if they are still alive now."
The young man gritted his teeth and said: "The third brother and I will go first. You wait on the street. If it's a lie, you can run away. We have strength and fast feet, so we can run away more easily. We will meet outside the city then."
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Everyone responded.
So the young man took two people to the county government while asking around. The others found a place on the street corner and sat on the ground. There were three people with children, so they simply put the dirty children in front of them and asked them to reach out to ask for them.
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The food for dinner hasn’t arrived yet...
When the three of them arrived at the county government office, they stood at the bulletin wall and poked their heads in the air, not daring to step forward.
None of the three people dared to step forward, so they could only hide behind the bulletin wall. When they looked up, they saw the densely packed words posted on it, but the three of them didn't recognize any of them.
The young man sighed, "It would be great if I could read. Maybe I wouldn't have to go up there."
The two government officials standing guard in front of the county government office had already seen the three of them. Seeing them peeping out their heads, and then looking at the tattered cloth strips on their bodies that could hardly cover their bodies, they stepped forward with their swords in hand and shouted: "
What do you three do?"
The three of them were startled and wanted to turn around and run away. The yamen officer had already asked: "Are they beggars from our county or from other counties?"
The young man stopped retreating, swallowed his saliva and asked, "Can't there be beggars in the county?"
"Why should you be a beggar if you have hands and feet? Magistrate Bai is in urgent need of manpower now. Where did you beg before?"
The young man immediately said: "We are from another county. We heard that Beihai County is recruiting workers and allocating land to the refugees, so we came here."
"Dividing land? It's not easy for you to divide land, but it's not difficult to recruit workers. Come in with me."
The three of them looked at each other, raised their feet and followed the yamen servant in. They looked around cautiously and asked, "Then, no distinction of land?"
"Our county magistrate has said that even if we settle down, we must select outstanding people. The land in our Beihai County should be reserved for hardworking and capable people, so it is not easy to allocate land, but it is not difficult to apply for jobs. Now our county
There’s a shortage of people.”
"I wonder what kind of job it is?"
"What kind of work can you do?" The government servant looked at them with disdain and said, "You can only farm, let's go."
After entering the county government office and walking to the left, I happened to meet Chief Secretary Song, "Mr. Song, are you going out?"
Chief Song stopped and narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw the three young men, "Are you here to apply for a job?"
"Ah, little one, let's take him to Zhao Li now."
Chief Song's mouth slightly lowered. Bai Shan handed over the statistics and recruitment matters to Zhao Ming. Because he was reused, everyone in the county government respected him as "Zhao Li", but the county officials and officials surnamed Zhao did not.
Young Master Song felt that if things continued like this, he would lose his position as chief secretary to Zhao Ming.
Seeing that Chief Song was silent, the yamen officer hurriedly waved to the young man, "Hurry up, hurry up, it's getting late, and you won't even be able to make it in time for dinner if we don't make statistics tonight."
When the three young men heard this, they immediately followed.
Zhao Ming was in a small room with only a table and a chair, and a hanging curtain behind him, but this was of no use for the time being.
Seeing the three people, Zhao Ming opened the book and asked them, "What are their names, what year are they born in, and where are they from?"
After knowing that they were refugees, he asked: "When and why did they become refugees? Where did they wander before coming to our county? What did they do for a living?"
Then he asked, "What talents do you have?"
The previous questions were okay, but for the last one, the three young people were stunned, "What is talent?"
"Can you do carpentry, building houses, building bridges, breaking bricks?" Zhao Mingdao: "If you don't know these, how about rice, growing wheat, growing vegetables, raising pigs, ducks, chickens, cows, and sheep?"
The three of them nodded in succession, "We know how to farm, raise chickens and sheep."
Zhao Ming nodded, "What's more, no one can order anything special? Even if it's braided bamboo."
The three of them shook their heads.
Zhao Ming wrote them truthfully, but the young man in the lead hesitated and asked: "Sir, is there any difference between someone who knows carpentry and someone who knows how to farm?"
"The wages are different," Zhao Mingdao said, "Those with special talents will be paid higher wages by the county government."
"How much does it cost to work on that kind of land?"
Zhao Mingdao: "Twenty articles."
The young man's eyes lit up and he asked, "Do you prepare your own food, or does the county government pay for it?"