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Chapter 123 Does it count as helping the county magistrate?

Chen Xingyan slapped him with some distaste, "Are you stupid? Where do you put people to work, is there no foreman or supervisor there? If you are really worried, you can directly arrange them to the quarry. There must be an overseer there, right?"

Lu Daxiong slapped his forehead, isn't it, why did he forget this?

"Xing Xing is still smart, I will start to arrange it immediately."

But just a few days later, several doctors unanimously confirmed that there was nothing wrong with these people, and Lu Daxiong began to arrange.

Among them were nine women, the youngest was only three years old and was brought here by her mother, and the oldest was already in her thirties.

Lu Daxiong asked the mayor's wife to arrange these women, which was regarded as giving the mayor a face. At the same time, he divided the remaining men into two groups, among which the young and healthy group was directly arranged to pick up the women. The quarry works as coolies, while the other group is mostly old and weak, and they are assigned to do some chores.

The mayor's wife made arrangements for the girls respectively. Three of them were willing to sell themselves as servants, and they all went to several rich families in the town. There were still a few who were unwilling to sell themselves, but they were young, some were widows, and some were unmarried girls. So the mayor's wife began to talk about kissing them.

The last remaining pair of mother and daughter were taken in by the mayor's wife's natal restaurant. She was asked to wash dishes and vegetables, and to be a handyman, barely enough to feed the mother and daughter.

In this way, these more than [-] people can be easily arranged.

Those who intend to stay will naturally have to re-establish their household registration, and all of these need to be reported.

Of course, after the report, Ying County also needs to verify it again. These days, if you want to fish in troubled waters, it is easy and easy to say, but it is really difficult to say that it is difficult.

After all, if there is nothing to do with the higher-ups, and there is no money in his hands, it will be difficult to handle anything.

As the weather gradually warmed up, Chen Xingyan had asked someone to buy a lot of thinner and defective cloth as early as the first month of the lunar year. Now this kind of overalls can be said to be quite common in the north.

Every city and every family has them, but they are extremely common and cheap things, and the only one who can see good embroidery workers is Ruyifang.

Because of this, the prices of Chen Xingyan's gowns have only been slightly lowered, but generally speaking, they are still profitable.

And because the number of people going out here is the largest, so the profits will naturally accumulate.

During the Chinese New Year, many village chiefs from other villages came to give New Year gifts, and they were inquiring about the smock inside and out.

Chen Xingyan knew in his heart that these people wanted to benefit the people in their villages and feed them, which was the most important thing.

After Chen Xingyan discussed it with his family, he also nodded in agreement.

It's just that there is only Fang Shi alone, and it is obvious that he is too busy.

So Chen Xingyan had an idea, and handed over the cutting of the smocks and going out after work in several villages near Shangliu Village to He Hua, while Fang took care of the other villages.

In this way, the two of them will not work too hard, but at the same time they can make a lot of money.

Especially for the Fang family, it can be regarded as giving her, the wife of the village head, enough face.

For this, Fang was naturally overjoyed.

The Liu family in Shangliu Village was equally happy from ear to ear.

In the past, they could earn a lot of income just by taking care of one of their villages, but now they take care of several more villages, how can they not be happy?
Da Zhuang Niang has really accepted the Lu family now, and she really treats this daughter-in-law better and better.

After all, these good changes in the family were all brought about by the daughter-in-law.

Er Zhuang, who was originally thin and weak and felt like he couldn't support the family, is now a person with errands, and his work is not tiring, his salary is still stable, and his relatives are protecting him. This is simply a fairy-like life!
Lu Daxiong solved the problem of the refugees in Qingshui Town, but he didn't completely relax.

Because there are still hundreds of refugees outside the county seat. Although the county government has also asked people to set up porridge sheds, the problem is that the food will always be eaten up one day.

It's only February now, and it's still early before the harvest of summer grain. How long can the grain in the county government's inventory last?
Moreover, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that the number of refugees will continue to increase.

Gaoyang County's population is not particularly large, nor is it a large county, but it occupies a lot of land.

It's just that apart from the hills, there are some wastelands.

If you want to receive these refugees, you can only open up wasteland.

For Gaoyang County, this is naturally a good thing. With a larger population, more land can be developed here, and it will naturally become richer gradually.

But the problem is, if those lands are so easy to cultivate, people in this county would have already started to cultivate them, so how can these refugees be used?
Because of this, the county magistrate was in a hurry.

In the end, after finding a lot of experienced farmers, it was confirmed that nearly a thousand mu of land was not suitable for growing wheat and corn.

Even if it is reclaimed and planted forcibly, the harvest of that year is extremely limited. Maybe three or four mu of land will not be as much as one mu of good land.

So, who is interested in opening such a wasteland?

But now that there are these refugees, it's better to have land than nothing, right?
After Chen Xingyan heard the news, he asked Lu Daxiong to take her to the wasteland to have a look.

What Lu Daxiong took her to was the largest piece of wasteland in Gaoyang County, which was about five or six hundred acres, and there were no villages or homes nearby.

After Chen Xingyan looked at the soil carefully, he knew what kind of land this land was suitable for.

You can grow some melons and fruits, such as watermelons or melons, and sweet potatoes are also possible, and if you grow sweet potatoes here, the harvest should be better than that in Lujia Village, and the sweet potatoes produced will be sweeter.

Because this is a semi-sandy land, the sandy land is not suitable for growing main crops such as wheat.

Chen Xingyan felt that he had found a treasure.

Although food cannot be grown here, if melons and fruits are grown, the market must be good.

It's just that this place is deserted now, and someone has to come to reclaim it, and at the same time, houses have to be built here.

Chen Xingyan wanted to buy these lands.

After Lu Daxiong heard this, he didn't show any surprise, but just wanted her to give a reason.

"These lands are very suitable for growing some melons and fruits, and some places can also be used as medicine gardens. Big bear, we can buy this place and then hire those refugees to cultivate it. Does this count as helping the county magistrate? busy?"

Lu Daxiong looked at her with extremely suspicious eyes: "There are almost 500 refugees in the city, and there are more than [-] refugees outside the city. Are you sure you can use them up?"

(End of this chapter)