Late Tang

The work-for-work program in Dengzhou was in full swing, and Dengzhou and the four counties below distributed some food to the refugees gathered outside the city, allowing them to return to their villages.Afterwards, some projects in various counties and townships started one after another, and those young and strong people went to register for labor.Of course, if the family has food and money, it is not necessary to participate in the relief work.However, the government also stipulated that if there are young and strong men in the family who have not participated in labor relief, then they cannot receive relief food.

Relief from work is still very good. The young and strong can get a liter of rice a day, and the old and young can get half a liter of rice a day. Moreover, young men and women who participate in hard labor can get six hundred money or ten catties of rice every month.

These projects carried out by the government are not random. These are all researched by the state and county together, and Li Jing can only proceed with the final approval.The projects opened are basically basic construction, such as water conservancy projects, road and bridge construction, city repair and so on.

On the other hand, Li Jing also encouraged those landlords and merchants to recruit refugees to work.However, Li Jing issued an official document at the same time, with detailed requirements for recruiting refugees to work, such as the minimum income standard for daily work, and this standard is still calculated according to food.Different from the government's disaster relief, the government uses work as relief, and only distributes one liter of rice and [-] Wen a day.But for other migrant workers, the minimum daily standard is [-] Wen, or three liters of rice.

And in order to prevent those unscrupulous landlords and tyrants from taking advantage of the disaster to swallow up the people's land property, Li Jing also specially ordered that the collection of all debts owed by the people should be suspended for one year.Moreover, during this year, it is also forbidden to charge high interest rates, and can only be calculated according to the lowest interest rate.For those who dare to borrow usury in a disaster year, once investigated and dealt with, they will be fined ten times the loan usury.

Moreover, for grain stores in Dengzhou, there is a maximum price limit. If the price exceeds the price, the store will be directly sealed up and the grain will be confiscated.And it is also forbidden to sell the grain, unless the grain is sold out, it is forbidden to close the store, otherwise it will be directly confiscated.In addition, there is a special regulation that unless a special order is obtained, the grain in Dengzhou is not allowed to be shipped out of Dengzhou.

All this is to stabilize food prices. After all, there are more than 30 people in Dengzhou, and not all of them have no food and have to receive relief.

After these orders were issued, many people did not obey them.Some people took the opportunity to increase food prices, some openly usurped loans, and some landlords took advantage of the opportunity to take good people as slaves.

Li Jing is naturally not soft on those who dare to openly challenge his majesty.Gongsun Lan's Plum Blossom Gate and Li Wei's Flying Eagle Battalion were dispatched together, but there was a little turbulence below, and Li Jing immediately knew about it.On the second day after the start of disaster relief, Li Xigou led the military police battalion to dispatch. Groups of black-clothed military police armed with guns and knives crossed knives. And a dozen landlords, and seven or eight loan sharks were all arrested from their homes.

For these people, Li Jing wanted to make an example of them, and directly built a high platform on the original site where the bandits were tried in the outskirts of the city, and then publicly tried these people.Severe punishment will be imposed on those who lend usury, sell high-priced grain, and take advantage of the opportunity to force the good into slavery.Not only were they imposed extremely high fines according to the regulations, and their food was confiscated, but they were also sent to work for three months on the construction site.

Several of the perpetrators were Cui's distant relatives, who asked someone to find Cui Youcheng, the county magistrate of Cui's Huang County in Dengzhou.But for Cui Youcheng who came to intercede, Li Jing not only did not give favor, but reprimanded him a lot.Cui Youcheng hit a snag and knew Li Jing's determination, so he let it go.Those who were originally on the sidelines saw that even the Cui family couldn't make it through this road, so they gave up immediately.

"Li Jing, what do you mean, grandma, you dare to move!"

Li Jing was reading through a copy of the request for payment on the construction site, and made some corrections and instructions. Although these work-for-relief projects do not require labor costs, materials, etc. are still needed.The money is not much, but it is not much, but the key point is that there is no money in Dengzhou treasury.The original little money was all taken away by Song Wen when he left.And Li Jing also said that the pursuit of the people's previous arrears will be suspended, and the two taxes will be exempted this year.The treasury is empty, so it has to be pulled from Zhendong Army.

Hearing this pungent voice, Li Jing knew who it was without looking up.Needless to say, Princess Xihe must be here.Moreover, Li Jing knew very well that he would come and had been waiting for her for a long time.

"Sit!" Li Jing continued to instruct official documents without raising his head.

"Li Jing, you know what I'm asking you for. I'm kind enough to help you, but you don't appreciate it, and you want to send someone to fine me. What do you mean?" Seeing Li Jing ignoring her, Li Huier directly said Li Jing's official documents were snatched away and thrown aside.

Li Jing looked up and saw Li Huier's eyes were wide open, staring at him like a wolf.

These days, Li Jing issued an official document to encourage those merchants who recruited refugees, and announced that using hungry people to work can obtain certain tax concessions.After the release of this official document, many merchant workshops have recruited refugees.

The princess's quilt workshop also recruited a group of refugees, and the number of recruits was large.Due to the strong support of Li Jing in the quilt workshop, and because it has been contracting the orders of Zhendong Army's military uniforms, shoes and socks, the workshop contracted by the princess, Yu Youniang, Wang Yueying and Xiao Yulou is now very good. booming.Now it not only has more than [-] workers, but also has several workshops such as weaving workshops, cloth dyeing workshops, garment workshops, and footwear workshops.Not only the production of military uniform shoes and socks, but also the production of ready-made clothes and dyeing cloth, the business has expanded greatly.

This time, the princess responded to Li Jing's call and recruited a thousand female workers at once.However, due to the fact that the quilt workshop has implemented assembly line work for a long time, piece-rate wages, more pay for more work.So this batch of new female workers is the same.Since it is a new recruit, there is still one month of training. During the one-month training period, there is only one month's usual guaranteed salary.All of this was normal, and it was agreed before the recruitment.

However, among the group of people dealt with by Li Jing this time, several of them were lower than the minimum salary of at least [-] cash per month announced by Li Jing. After they were punished, they reported to the state government. Several workshops say that their workers are also below this standard.

After reporting this matter, how could Li Jing not know that there must be many people watching his reaction.He also knew that there was nothing wrong with the princess and the others, but it was indeed inconsistent with the new regulations.After thinking about it, Li Jing finally sent people to the princess's workshop and forced them to increase the salary of the newly recruited workers to at least [-] Wen per month.In addition, a high fine of one thousand strings was imposed on the workshop.

Li Jing did this because he didn't want those people to take advantage of the loopholes in the regulations.Anyway, the Princess and the others are also their own people. When outsiders saw that Li Jing even punished them, this rule was naturally established.

The princess also knew about these things, Xiao Yulou and others knew even more, but Li Huier was a little angry.

"I haven't seen the Princess for a long time, and she looks much more beautiful. She feels less youthful and more mature than before!" Li Jing didn't answer directly, but praised Li Huier.When Li Huier heard this, her face turned red, and she said angrily, "If you want to say that I am old, just say so, knowing that you married Wang Wanjun, the most beautiful woman in Liaodong, and brought along a beautiful little fairy for two days. They should have left them there long ago."

Li Jing's first wife and second wife had never been pregnant, but the three women married in Liaodong were all pregnant at once. For some reason, Li Huier felt a little jealous when thinking about it.

"Wang Wanjun is all over the country, but the princess is also beautiful." Li Jing praised with a smile.

"Don't talk all that nice, you just think we're easy to bully!" Li Huier slapped Li Jing's big hand away from the back of her hand, and glared at him, "It doesn't count if you bullied me before, but you bullied your young lady .It's even better now, even our workshop will not be spared."

Li Jing laughed twice.

But Li Huier is not so easy to dismiss, she stared at Li Jing and asked: "By the way, what do you plan to do with the young lady's matter, now that she lives in your house, you have to give her a name, don't you?" Do you want her to be so ignorant for the rest of her life?"

Li Jing had a headache and said: "What do you mean I bullied you and bullied her again? I don't know how to deal with this young lady. She is the teacher's daughter, how dare I have any wrongdoing?"

"I don't think it's wrong. At the beginning, you kicked open the door of the other person, looked at the whole body of the other person, and kissed the other person?"

"That's an expedient measure in desperation. I can't just ignore death, can I?"

"No matter what, you are a big girl with yellow flowers. You have seen it, touched it, touched it, and kissed it. Now that you have taken someone into your house, do you still want to renege on it?"

Li Jing couldn't laugh or cry, there was really no reason to talk to the princess.If possible, Li Jing would not mind having an extra woman in the room, but it depends on the circumstances.That Yu Youniang is the daughter of the Yu family, and her father and uncle are prime ministers every three festivals. How can a daughter of such a family be a concubine for Li Jing, and being a concubine is also the sixth wife.Li Jing is not the kind of person who only thinks with the lower body, some things can be done, and some things cannot be done.If he really gave Yu Youniang to him, Yu's family would probably think it was a great shame.In that case, not only will you lose a strong ally, but you will also gain a strong enemy for nothing. Only a fool would do that.

"How about, your youngest mother will take you to work in your mansion for a while?" Li Jing smiled and said to Li Hui'er, Yu Youniang can't live in Li's house for a long time, otherwise, she will not be able to wash herself off even if she jumps into the Yellow River up.It's better to get her out of the house earlier, otherwise it will be bad if word gets out.

"Why should I help you? You just fined me a thousand pennies!"

"The perfume workshop has newly developed more than a dozen new fragrances. Later, I will have someone wrap each flavor for you, and I will give you a set!" Li Jing said flatteringly.

"Ten sets!"

"What do you want so much for?"

"I can give it away!"

Seeing that Li Hui'er finally laughed, Li Jing chuckled in his heart, women really wanted to be coaxed, some sweet talk, plus dozens of bottles of perfume, it was done.

(To be continued)