The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 278 Apart from being too small, Wazhou has better irrigation conditions than Guanzhong!
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it’s the end of the ninth year of Jingli!
The upcoming New Year will be a busy year for the people in Yungu, especially those who work in the government!
In just a few months, more than [-] refugees have flowed into the country, and large numbers of refugees are continuing to come and go.As the main force in resettling disaster victims, how could officials be free?

Officials had no time to spare, and neither did the new immigrants.The Yungu military government did not use a big pot method to resettle the victims. In addition to providing basic security for the first 20 days after arriving, the victims had to work hard to obtain survival materials in the following days.

It's freezing cold, how can there be any work for the victims?It's very simple. We organize people to dig and transport coal in the coal mines of Qian Castle and Haishi Castle. We can dig coal without fear of freezing weather.Taking advantage of the abundant labor force now, dig more coal and transport it to the city for storage. When the weather warms up, the labor can be used for other things.

Digging and transporting coal requires strong labor, and women, children, the elderly and the weak also have corresponding work. Women can sew military uniforms and military shoes, while the elderly and the weak help in whatever they can in large and small carpentry workshops.With so many people suddenly added, tables, chairs and benches have become a scarce commodity.

Then there is the coking plant in Wazhou City, which was built in the cold wind.The coking plant is not small in scale and can also provide some employment.

The New Year is about to come, and in Wazhou City, old residents, new immigrants, and renters from Hexi finally have some joy on their faces. Regardless of whether they have money or not, the New Year must be celebrated.

Xu Zhiyun is a refugee who escaped from Guanzhong. He had just pulled a load of coal from the dock to the coal yard. After receiving this month's expenses, he hurried home.

It is said to be a home, but in fact it is a few rough resettlement houses built, not in Wazhou City, but on the outskirts of the Weibao in the east of Wazhou City.But these few rough houses can make people feel at ease and miss them.

When they got home, their wife, Wu, was picking up the soles of her shoes while looking at the second child sleeping peacefully on the bed, while the eldest brother was playing in the mud in the yard.

Seeing her husband coming back, Xu Zhiyun's wife put down her sewing and prepared to make dinner.

He pulled open the bottom of the mud coal stove, poked the ashes with a fire stick, filled it with two briquettes, and started boiling water for cooking.

"Master, how much did you get paid today? Our oil and canned meat are almost out. Let's see if we can get some more." While taking out the bran noodles and dough, Xu Zhiyun's wife Wu asked her husband how much he was paid.

When Xu Zhiyun saw his wife asking about his salary, he hurriedly took out the money he had just received today and said, "I worked a lot this month, so I received a total of two silver dollars, plus three hundred cents. Our oil and meat Why is it so expensive? Didn’t you just buy it a few days ago?”

"It's been about ten days since I bought it. In addition to noodles and potatoes, the only cooking at home is oil and canned meat. Doesn't it cost some money? Our second child is still breastfeeding. If the rice is not cooked well, I will have less milk! Besides, , It’s not like the family has no money, you are so careless, are you afraid that the three of us will eat more? Tomorrow, if I pay for the soles of my shoes, I can also receive a few hundred coins, so I’m not afraid that the family will have no money to spend." Seeing Mrs. Wu. The husband complained about the food expenses and couldn't help but feel a little angry. A family of four was eating, how could they not spend money?In some military supply store in Wazhou, the noodles and meat they buy are cheap, but they just don’t taste good. Why don’t they think of some way to make the rice taste better?
"Who thinks you and your baby have eaten too much? Isn't it that we fled to Yungu with our whole family just to let you and our baby have enough to eat and survive the famine? Look at our second baby growing up like this , I think I can survive this year’s Nian Cheng. Generally speaking, it’s hard to survive for such a big baby when it comes to Nian Cheng!

I am thinking about saving money, mainly because I will have to work in the fields after spring and will have less time to make money. Let me save some flowers and get through the busy spring, so that I can live a stable life.By the way, the meat and oil will not be sold tomorrow.I heard from officials that the governor's office would distribute New Year's gifts to the victims on a household basis, and the New Year's gifts would include jars of meat and oil.Also, on New Year's Eve, our team will organize all the disaster victims in the team to have a big pot of rice and make bowls of vegetables to eat as much as they want. "

Xu Zhiyun was helping his daughter-in-law cook while he was replying to her words.He doesn't like to talk much when he is at work, but talks a lot when he comes home.

"The officials want to give us New Year's gifts? Is there such a thing? I have never heard of it. Why are the officials here in Wazhou so good? If I had known that we would meet such a good official, we should have run away earlier. Come to Yungu and save yourself the trouble you suffered this year!
When it was time to flee, you were very reluctant to leave, and you almost left us three to starve to death.Look at us now, we are burning coal stoves, eating well, and sharing so many paddy fields. It will be difficult for us to escape in the future! "

"Who are the officials from Wazhou? This is Commander Song from Yungu. He was born in hardship and understands the hardships of our farming people best. In order to let the officials carefully resettle the victims, in recent times, but Many people were sent to catch corrupt officials and bad guys. A few days ago, the chief manager of our coal mine was caught and interrogated in Taoyang City for deducting our wages!

I heard people say that the manager of the coal yard is afraid that he will be executed!With Commander Song watching from behind, these petty officials in Wazhou gave him some courage and did not dare to treat me harshly. "

While resettling the victims, Song Yingkui did not stop Ding Huanyi's inspection work. Instead, he transferred manpower from the normal school and Yungu University to strengthen the force.The resettlement of disaster victims is such a big event. If we don't keep a close eye on it, it's hard to guarantee that the people involved won't get involved.Aren’t the disaster relief measures in Dazheng just messed up by grassroots officials?

"Master, do you think there will be another disaster in our farming business next year? We have finally arrived in Wazhou. If we encounter another disaster, we will have no way to survive!" The officials here in Wazhou are indeed better than those in Dazheng. It was a good thing, but ultimately it was up to herself to survive. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, Wu couldn't help but worry about the situation in the coming year.

"The land allotted to us is all waterable. We are right next to the Yellow River, so there is nothing to worry about! Farming in Wazhou will definitely be better than in our hometown, so just put your heart in your stomach.

It's also luck. If it hadn't been for the feudal turmoil that turned Wazhou City into an empty city, how would our family have been lucky enough to move to such a good place?The old man said that our country in Guanzhong is fertile and wild for thousands of miles, but we farmers know well that there is no good water in Guanzhong. If there is a severe drought, we will be unable to withstand the disaster. Unlike here in Wazhou, although Sichuan is small, there is the Yellow River.With more than ten acres of paddy fields here, the children will never have to worry about growing up.This time I came to the right place! "

As the saying goes, Suzhou and Shaanxi are not separated. People in Guanzhong have heard about Wazhou and know that it was once a prosperous city. However, farmers like Xu Zhiyun know very little about the specific situation of Wazhou.Before coming to Wazhou, their impression of Wazhou was not good, but after arriving there, the victims felt at ease because they saw good irrigated land that was difficult to find in Guanzhong.

In addition to the small area, there is no place in the entire Guanzhong Plain with irrigation conditions comparable to the Wazhou River.

(End of this chapter)