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Chapter 78 0076 [The merit of enlightenment deserves a worship]

It will change in the future!

Nie Dong was thoughtful, chewing carefully in his heart.

When he came back to his senses, Han Zhen had already gone far.

Back in the house, after temporarily placing the fleeing soldiers in the front yard, Han Zhen went all the way through the hanging flower gate and entered the second courtyard.

In the yard, An Niang and Fang Sansan were squatting by the well to wash clothes.

Seeing Han Zhen's safe return, An Niang's moist peach blossom eyes sparkled with a smile.

Fang Sansan, on the other hand, exclaimed in surprise, "Ah Lang, you're back!"

"Ah."

Han Zhen nodded and asked, "Where is my sister-in-law?"

Fang Sansan replied: "Madam has been tidying up the small storeroom for the past few days."

"Fang Sansan, go and call the chief."

After Han Zhen gave an order, he stepped into the hall.

Zhu Zhengze still had his old meek look, he cupped his hands unhurriedly and said, "I've met the village chief."

"In the past few days when I was away, how many fleeing households have been collected?"

While asking, Han Zhen picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a cup of herbal tea.

As usual, Zhu Zhengze handed over a stack of papers and replied, "Just as I was about to report to Mr. Xiaolang, the number of fleeing households who went down the mountain in the past few days suddenly increased for some reason. A total of 78 households were collected, with a total of 310 people."

Han Zhen's movement of drinking water stagnated, this amount was somewhat unexpected.

He asked curiously, "Are they recruited by the villagers?"

"No, I've asked. Most of the fleeing households went down the mountain spontaneously." Zhu Zhengze shook his head and explained.

"How much barren land is left in the village?"

"190 three acres."

After drinking the herbal tea in the cup, Han Zhen mused, "From today onwards, there will be no rewards for the villagers to lure escaped households. When the barren fields in the village are distributed, if any escaped households go down the mountain, they will only be given a bucket of rice."

Giving rewards to villagers in the early stage and giving deserters to deserted households are all means to attract them to go down the mountain and settle down.

Now a large number of fleeing households have spontaneously descended from the mountain, which shows that the previous propaganda has had an effect.

In the future, even if there is no barren land allocation, the fleeing households will not have to worry about survival, work or join the army, and they can support their families.

Reclaiming some wasteland, the small life is definitely infinitely better than living in the mountains.

"I see."

Zhu Zhengze responded, expressing his understanding.

While speaking, the chief hurriedly stepped into the hanging flower door and walked into the hall.

"Meet the village chief."

"sit."

Calling the chief to sit down, Han Zhen asked as usual: "How are the village these days?"

The head of the village replied: "The head of the village is relieved, everything is as usual. It's just that because of the wheat harvest, many villagers had some conflicts in order to compete for the use of threshers and other agricultural tools. In addition, there has been a sudden increase in fleeing households down the mountain in the past few days, and there was almost a disturbance yesterday."

"Pay more attention to the escape, and keep an eye on it for me. If you find anything unusual, report it to me immediately." Han Zhen picked up the teapot and poured him a cup of tea.

"I save it."

The chief took the teacup and nodded solemnly.

"Recently, I plan to set aside an open space at the head of the village as a market and open several shops at the same time."

Han Zhen paused, and continued: "In the future, villagers can also set up stalls in the market, but they need to pay five cents of commercial tax for the proceeds from the sale."

The five-point tax, that is, 5%, is consistent with the commercial tax formulated by the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, although the imperial court stipulates 5%, tax collectors often face the problem of repeated tax collection and tax collection in different ways during the tax collection process, resulting in the merchants finally paying as much as 30% or even 50% of the commercial tax.

In fact, Han Zhen didn't expect the market to collect much business tax. After all, the villagers were so great that they only sold some eggs, or fish and shrimps they caught themselves, and they didn't have a few pennies a month.

The key is to set a rule first, with this rule, it will be convenient in the future.

"I'm going to inform the villagers right now."

The chief sipped the herbal tea in his cup, and was about to get up, but was stopped by Han Zhen.

"Not urgent."

After the chief sat down again, Han Zhen said: "This time I brought back a few people who can read and write. I plan to set up a village school. I will teach children during the day and adults at night. I don't want to stop."

Village school?

Don't stop repairing?

The head of the village was taken aback for a moment, then stood up, bowed and bowed: "I thank the village chief on behalf of the villagers of Xiaowang Village!"

Han Zhen waved his hand: "No need to do that."

But the head of the village said solemnly: "The merit of enlightenment should be worshiped."

After being paid homage by the head of the village, Han Zhen ordered: "In addition, a large number of workers have been recruited recently. If the villagers want to work, they can register with Zhu Zhengze. The head of the village will inform the villagers of these news."

The construction of markets, shops, village schools, blacksmith shops, and even military camps all required manpower.

Fortunately, the summer harvest is over at this moment, and there are still two or three months before the corn harvest. This period of time is during the slack season.

If there is a job at this time, the villagers will definitely flock to it.

"The village head is relieved, the old man will go now."

Watching the chief leave, Han Zhen waved to Anniang again.

Seeing this, An Niang stood up, wiped off the drops of water on her hands, and walked to the hall.

"Erlang, what's wrong?"

Han Zhen asked: "Am I used to living here during this time?"

An Niang said softly: "I'm used to living here, and Run Niang treats slaves very well, but she's a little too busy."

Hearing this, Han Zhen smiled slightly: "I happen to have an errand, and I want to ask you for help."

"Whether you want to help or not, Erlang has something to do, I will do my best." An Niang blamed him, as if she thought he was talking too much.

"I'm going to set up a market at the head of the village and open a few shops. You can help run it then."

An Niang has experience in running a tea shop before, and running a shop is not difficult for her.

The purpose of opening these shops is to stimulate the consumption of villagers, and to facilitate the villagers.

After all, Xiaowang Village is more than 20 miles away from the county seat. It is really inconvenient to travel all the way to buy something.

If it is on foot, it will take two hours to go back and forth.

Besides, the villagers of Xiaowang Village are now talking about whether they dare to go to the county seat.

In addition, you can also use the market shops to attract fleeing households in the mountains, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Sure enough, when she heard that she was asked to run the shop, An Niang immediately became interested, and hurriedly asked, "Which shops does Erlang plan to open?"

Han Zhen murmured: "For the time being, we will open three stores first, a grocery store selling some daily necessities, a ready-to-wear fabric store, and the last one a jewelry store."

This time, several large boxes of jewelry were seized in Songshan Ridge, it was useless for him to keep them, he might as well sell them.

If I opened a jewelry store in a nearby village, I'm afraid I would lose my pants, but Xiaowang Village is different.

Each of these villagers has a lot of money on hand, and there will be more and more in the future, so they don't have to worry about selling.

People, that's it.

After solving food and clothing, I will start to think about other pursuits.

An Niang's face was filled with embarrassment: "This... three shops, I can't manage them all by myself."

"Here."

Han Zhen pointed to Fang Sansan in the yard, and said with a smile: "These two little girls are very free on weekdays. You should teach them more, and then recruit a few girls from the village to help them."

"It's okay."

An Niang pursed her lips and smiled.

"I'll go to the backyard to say hello to my sister-in-law."

After Han Zhen finished speaking, he got up and walked towards the backyard.

In the small warehouse, a pretty little woman was bending over, wearing a cloth scarf, dragging a box with great effort.

The small grinding disc under the skirt is round and tight.

Different from Anniang's plumpness, Han Zhang's figure is slightly petite, but the beauty lies in the pure breath between the brows, and the sense of disobedience combined with the twigs and fruits.

(End of this chapter)