Magistrate Lu, who had vaguely sensed that something was not right, secretly cursed Bai Shan as "treacherous" when he found out that some people even abandoned the autumn rice harvest and went to work in Beihai County, but could not stop him.
After thinking about it, I decided to turn a blind eye and let it go.
But in order to prevent Bai Shan from taking away too many people from him, he also asked the government officials to check the refugees passing by and "guide them to Beihai County."
He currently does not have the ability to resettle these refugees, so why not give them to Bai Shan? If he has enough people, he will not take ready-made people from him anymore, right?
Magistrate Lu did not expect that the small Beihai County would absorb these foreign populations like a whale.
They will first be settled in the official fields outside the city, which have been the official fields of previous county magistrates and are also the current job fields of Bai Shan.
Perhaps to reduce disputes, or perhaps to give preferential treatment to a county magistrate, except for the county magistrate's field, there was a large area of wasteland and open land.
The former Lu County Magistrate couldn't bear these lands to be abandoned, so he had some wasteland replanted. Even though he later left Gao Sheng, this piece of official land was still cultivated.
Bai Shan took advantage of him after he came.
Unfortunately, the tenants don't seem to be very diligent and the output is not very high.
Bai Shan could also understand that being a tenant to the government was not a happy thing, so after harvesting the wheat harvested in the summer and the rice harvested in the autumn, he left enough food for the three of them, and turned around and sold the rest to the county government.
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The price is fair, and we neither take advantage of the county government nor let the county government take advantage of ourselves.
Chief Song, who was about to take the opportunity to bribe Bai Shan:...
You don’t even need to pay for it to be delivered to your door.
Now that the land was full of people, Bai Shan had people build a lot of thatched houses on the open land for people to live in, and then asked them to reclaim the wasteland near his farmland to make it official farmland.
As for his working land, it is now divided into pieces. Some of them need to plant winter wheat, dig ponds to raise fish, or plant mulberries and hemp. Some better fields have been opened up and sprinkled with vegetables.
Plant vegetables.
For the time being, the county government has no objection to using public equipment for private use.
But after working for a period of time, the long-term workers who are recruited will be selected and assigned in groups to work on the official fields in each village.
Zhu Sanlang and the others received their wages on the evening of the third day, a total of forty cash.
The three of them are still very thin, but their spirit is very different from before. Because they were refugees before coming here, and they had notes from the medical department, so although they were classified as farmers, they were assigned relatively light tasks.
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In the words of the person who led them, "Take good care of your body first so that it can be used later. Otherwise, if you damage your body right from the start, who will work for the county government in the future?"
He said: "I didn't say these words. It came from the county government, saying it was the county magistrate who said it."
Because Bai Shan came over from time to time to check and inquire, the workers did not dare to fight with each other, and even the government officials did not dare to be too harsh to them, for fear of leaving a bad impression on Magistrate Bai.
Although Magistrate Bai's methods are also powerful, judging from everything he does, everyone knows that he loves the people, especially the people under his rule, so he has a violent heart.
The yamen servants didn’t dare to do anything.
Not to mention that no one dared to disobey Dong Xianwei's repeated orders.
Zhu Sanlang received the forty cash salary, immediately put it in his arms, and ran to the clerk who managed them to ask for leave.
"Going to the city?" The clerk looked up at him, then looked at the two young men behind him, and said with a smile: "Are you going to the city to buy something? What do you want to buy? We have everything here, including clothes, shoes and socks, don't dislike it.
Their stitches are not fine, but they are cheap. Go to the county town and ask, which shop sells ready-made clothes for only 20 yuan? The fabrics are all good. If the thread breaks in the future, you can buy the thread yourself and sew it up and you can wear it.
Already."
Zhu Sanlang: ...Who buys clothes if they can’t wear them for three to five years?
He finally understood why county government clothes were so cheap.
He quickly said: "I'm not shopping, I'm going out to see my relatives. They came to Beihai County with me. I don't know what's going on now, so I want to go and see them."
He hesitated for a moment and then asked: "I want them to work in the county government, but some of them have children, so I don't know if adults want them."
The clerk immediately said: "The child has no wages."
Zhu Sanlang: "...that's not what I mean when I'm young. Of course, children don't need to be paid. So if the adults work, can the children follow? Don't worry, they don't eat food from the county government. We save our own rations to give them to them."
Clerk: "Don't you still have food provided by the county government? You are all refugees, right? The county government has existing regulations. You can bring people with you, and you can bring your children."
He turned to look at the hourglass and said: "It's getting late. The county government office should be out of office now. However, Zhao officials usually go to office later than others. If you go early, you might be able to move in today.
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As soon as Zhu Sanlang heard this, he took the note and rushed into the city with his two friends. He found two people in the alley not far from the city gate. "Where are the others? Call them back quickly. Let's go to the county government together."
Go register."
The two people looked at the greatly changed Zhu Sanlang and the three of them, and were extremely surprised, "These are new clothes? There are also new shoes, Sanlang, are you rich?"
Zhu Sanlang patted off their dirty hands and said, "Don't touch it, you will get it too. Call everyone back quickly."
Only then did the two people react and quickly asked: "Is it reliable to go to the county government?"
"Reliable," Zhu Sanlang took out the copper coins that were not yet warm in his arms, flashed them in front of their eyes, then put them away with great care, and said: "The wages are settled once every three days, and we happened to meet each other two days ago.
The three of us have enough wages."
The two of them were filled with envy, and then immediately went out to look for someone. They didn't search alleys one by one, but went straight down the street, shouting in their hometown dialect, "Come back, Saburo is back, come back soon -"
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A few people who were squatting in the back alley picking up swill from the restaurant heard this. They immediately stuffed the half-piece of steamed buns they had just pulled out into their mouths, turned around and ran out...
The children on the street who were stretching out their hands to say auspicious words to the people passing by also heard it. They turned their heads and looked at their relatives. They immediately stepped forward, picked up the children and ran towards the city gate.
Two-quarters of an hour later, a group of dirty and panting people blocked Zhao Ming at the gate of the county government office as he was about to go home.
Zhao Ming:……
He looked at the sun that had already set in the sky, and then at the group of people who were looking at him eagerly, and finally turned around and led them into the county government office.
Including the children, there are a total of eighteen people, which is quite a lot.
Because there were so many people and they were all refugees, Zhao Ming personally took them out after registering them, but instead of going to the medical office, he went to the side door of the backyard of the county government office and knocked on the door.
After a while, Bai Shanbian and Zhou Man, dressed in homely clothes, came out to watch.