After the rebirth, the cannon fodder left the plot

Chapter 71

Returning to Shimu Village again, and finally seeing no more refugees coming, Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin breathed a sigh of relief, their tense nerves relaxed, and they almost collapsed on the kang.

It's finally time to rest.

More than 1000 people, all the food they didn’t sell last year, even if they don’t peel it and eat it mixed with bran and wild vegetables, it’s barely enough for those people for two months. Fortunately, the weather is getting warmer now, and the mountains and plains are full of Wild vegetables, wild animals, and winter wheat can be harvested in two or three months, otherwise those people wouldn't be able to keep them for long.

And after the wheat harvest is completed, the two plan to arrange those refugees according to the settlement method of the West Village people the year before last. Those who are willing to settle down will be settled, given farm tools, and each family will cultivate two acres of land by themselves. Do it, if you don't want to do it, go to your own home.

It's just that they still need to buy a lot of farm tools, and the money from selling grain last year may be gone again.

Gu Jin's heart aches when she thinks about it, and she suddenly thinks of the fruit trees that were also sold for a lot of money last year.

No, I have to remove the fruit trees before they germinate, as well as the apricot saplings that grew out last year. The seeds left after eating the fruits last year can also be buried in the field over there , Maybe some fruit trees can grow, as for whether the fruit trees planted like this will grow fruit, she doesn't know, but it's better to try than not to try.

So after a day's rest, Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng led people to dig up the fruit trees. In order to survive, they dug the soil and roots together.

When the two returned from planting the fruit trees in Qingzhou Prefecture, the weather had already warmed up, and the hired workers from last year came back a few days later to start the new year's farming.

This time Shen Jingcheng didn't let these people open up another wasteland, but let them still plant the land from last year.

At the same time, he asked Jiang Zhengshu to teach Zhouquan some simple characters in his spare time, so that he could record the working hours and grain harvest of those hired workers.

After observing this year, both he and Gu Jin felt that Zhou Quan and his wife were quite reliable and worthy of trust.

When they left, they handed over the affairs here to these two people, and every year from now on, Shen Jingcheng would just come over to check the accounts.

After all the immigrants disappeared, and after a while, Gu Ling'er slowly came here again. When she saw that there were only pits left where there were fruit trees, she couldn't help but widen her eyes in surprise.

She also thought that if it bears fruit this year, even if it still doesn't get Gu Sanni's response, there will be some fruit to eat, why is it gone?

"Auntie, where are our fruit trees? Why are they gone?" Gu Ling'er had a rare conversation with Zhou Quan's wife.

"The master said that in order to settle the refugees, all the money was spent, so he sold all the fruit trees, saying how much they would be useful." Zhou Quan's daughter-in-law said what Gu Jin explained.

Recently, she is very happy. The man has started to learn characters, which means that men will be reused by the master in the future, so naturally she can't hold him back.

Gu Linger was a little speechless, how much can the fruit tree be sold for?Wouldn't it be nice to keep it for dinner?

The one surnamed Shen is also the same, without that diamond, he can do porcelain work, so if he continues to toss about, won't he have to toss all his fortunes?

However, she couldn't express her thoughts, she could only think secretly.

At the same time, Lin Hu and He Zhilin in the county government office on the other side had been waiting for Shen Jingcheng to settle down for the refugees, but day after day passed, the two of them never waited for Shen Jingcheng to come, nor did they see those refugees again.

He Zhilin asked Lin Hu to send someone to look quietly, but found that Shimu Village was extremely peaceful, there was no sign of a refugee, only some local hired laborers were working in the fields.

Hearing the news, the two murmured, and in the end He Zhilin waved his hand and let it go.

As long as he doesn't let him worry about those refugees, he can do whatever he wants!
How could a brat be able to find his way out of the sky?

Even if something happens, it's none of his business.

Lin Hu was speechless, he had never seen such a big hearted magistrate.

Isn't he afraid that Shen Jingcheng will make those immigrants rebel?

But what the master doesn't care about, what he can say as a master, he can only let it go.

But Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin are still very busy. They will go to Qingzhou Mansion every once in a while to see the progress of the mountain and the yard outside the mountain. At the same time, they also measure the fields that have been opened, and then go to the county to report the number of acres of the field. title deed.

Zhang Jingzhou's eyes were reddened when he saw the number of acres of land he reported, but unfortunately the imperial court did not allow officials to buy houses or land in the place where they worked, otherwise he wanted to do the same.

The busy days passed by quickly, and after the summer grain was harvested, a courtyard with two entrances and an ordinary courtyard with ten rooms had been built with stones outside the mountain.

Ordinary yards are just simple bungalows with shorter walls.The two courtyards are small two-story buildings with high walls surrounded by stones, which look like a small town from a distance.

The courtyards in the mountains are similar to here, the difference is that the two entrance courtyards are built on the flat part of the mountainside, while the ordinary courtyards are built at the foot of the mountain.

These two entered the yard, and Gu Jin liked them very much.

In this way, if they buy another person, they can let the person live in the front yard, while the two live in the backyard. They have nothing to do with each other, and it is convenient for both of them to do anything.

Shen Jingcheng is also very satisfied, he has long felt that Gu Xiu is an eyesore, and she is in front of him every day, making it difficult for him to have intimate behaviors with Ah Jin, he still likes to be alone in the yard with Ah Jin, so he can do whatever he wants, whatever Don't worry about it either.

After the yard here is built, Gu Jin is reluctant to go back to Shimu Village, but because Shen Jingcheng is still the grain chief there, he has to take into account the taxation issue there this year, and the newly built house also needs to dry out the moisture, so he can only Go back for now.

But before going back, Shen Jingcheng told these refugees about the settlement. The refugees have been used to being here for half a year. I heard that the settlement can allow them to cultivate two acres of land. Most of them immediately nodded in agreement, only a very small number of people, Because there were houses and fields in the original place, I reluctantly embarked on the way home again.

After Shen Jingcheng counted the number of people who wanted to settle down, he divided each team into several groups, named the villages, distributed the agricultural tools to each village, and went to Qingshan County with the booklets recording the information of each village.

After several dealings, he and Zhang Jingzhou had already established a tacit understanding. Now that he saw the settlement booklet brought by Shen Jingcheng, Zhang Jingzhou immediately asked the master to register these people.

"I don't know if nephew is interested in being the food chief?" After Shen Jingcheng was seated, Zhang Jingzhou asked him with a smile on his face.

He wants to keep Shen Jingcheng here. This person is capable at first glance, and he dares to think and do things. This year, the county resettled so many refugees, and his political achievements will definitely not be able to escape. If Shen Jingcheng is kept After a few more years of work, he might be promoted in two years.

Shen Jingcheng was taken aback, but he didn't expect him to ask such a question.

"It's like this." Zhang Jingzhou explained, "You see that you have more than 30 hectares of land now, right? In addition to these newly settled villagers, each household has opened up a few more acres of land, and it's almost the same without fifty or sixty hectares. Right? The imperial court stipulates that ten thousand shi or thousands of shi can be divided into one district, I want to divide those places into one district, and then how about you come to be the head of grain?"

"My lord, I'm not from Qingzhou Prefecture now." Shen Jingcheng looked at him suspiciously.

Although the two had a tacit understanding, he was still from the Jishui Mansion after all, so it was not a joke to give him the position of head of food like this?

(End of this chapter)