Nongmen Jinfeng: Cold-noodled husband and little daughter-in-law

Chapter 1169 Negotiations
The large rock-producing mountain land was bought by others, and many people in Shijiapo depended on the quarry for survival.Before the accident, no one would have thought of refusing to mine.

But isn't something wrong now...

The owner of the quarry refused, saying that his whole family depended on this mountain land for food, and it cost tens of thousands of silver to buy the mountain land. Now that the quarry is gone, they are not allowed to mine, and told him to drink the west wind and go north?

It's better to force him to death directly!
Not only did they not agree to stop, but they also agreed to compensate those injured by the landslide. Now Shijiapo was completely exploded, and the owner of the stone field was blocked in the ancestral hall to prevent him from leaving.

Compared with the heated discussion on Shijiapo, Fangshan Village is preparing quilts and food for delivery.

The house has collapsed, and there is no way to rebuild it if it is not sunny. Temporarily staying in the ancestral hall can only shelter from the wind and rain, but it cannot drive out the severe cold.So these are things that people urgently need.

However, the village chief did not go door-to-door to mobilize. Now that the public account is rich, there is still some public food, rice, wheat flour, corn flour, and buckwheat flour, directly loaded into a cart.

Although there are not many of each kind, it is enough for emergency.As for quilts, we can only see in the village who has the conditions to provide one or two beds.

Later, when Fang Xiaofu found out, he went to the courtyard and pulled out eight new quilts, which were specially popped out when preparing quilts for the courtyard last summer.

If there weren't many, Tang Mo and the others couldn't temporarily accommodate them when they came to live. It was convenient to arrange because they had all the necessary items in stock.

Including those vacated by other families in the village, a total of [-] beds were made up, covered with hay and covered with quilts, and they could sleep.

In addition, some noodles, eggs, and freshly evacuated from almost every family, also piled up a carriage.In this way, the three-horse cart supplies were sent to Shijiapo that afternoon.

Fang Xiaofu originally wanted to prepare a few chickens, and then prepare some smoked chicken and roast duck from Wuziqiu, but then he changed his mind and gave up.

The injured people can't eat these things for the time being, and it's hard to say whether the rest of the people can eat their mouths. Don't give away all the things that are sent overnight, and let people say that the gifts are too small and not enough, which is ugly up.

For disaster relief supplies, since the imperial court has not been able to effectively supervise them in this era, let alone a poor village?Rather than offering food all the time, it is better to contribute to the reconstruction, so that they can return home early and be self-reliant.

Although the rain stopped and the hail didn't fall again, the wind picked up again in the evening, making a whirring sound, which sounded scary.

Fang Xiaofu and Zhao Anyao looked around the gate of the courtyard several times with their hands in their sleeves, and finally waited for the brothers to come back.The old man and the second master also came back, and everyone was a little tired after entering the house.

Because of the busy day, they were all dirty. Fang Xiaofu, Ziwei, Zhao Junrui, and Ziya were busy fetching hot water for them, Zhao Anyao made hot tea, and even Zihong and Zisheng helped to add water and light the fire.

After being busy for a while, the brothers gathered in Fang Xiaofu's room and talked about the next thing.

It turned out that the owner of the quarry came in the afternoon, and he neither wanted to stop the quarrying nor pay compensation, and the two sides became deadlocked.Later, the village elder brought people to deliver supplies, and he was about to arrest the owner of the quarry to see the official.

Although it is legal quarrying, how can the boss not take responsibility for the accident?Moreover, something has happened to the quarry, and it will continue to happen if it continues, how can the yamen sit idly by?

But the owner of the quarry used the grounds that he had the title deed and mining rights, and said that even if he sued the capital, it would be reasonable.As for the compensation, it is not a work-related injury, so what is the compensation?Now that the quarry is gone, he is about to hang himself, who will pay him?

In the end, the village head of Shijiapo took people to the county magistrate's office. Even if he didn't file a complaint, he still had to report such a serious accident in his jurisdiction.

The county magistrate was busy cleaning up the disaster situation in the town and the villages under his jurisdiction. At this time, he heard that the landslide injured people, so he immediately took two government officials to Shijiapo on horseback to learn about the situation.

The county magistrate first went to the ancestral hall to see the wounded. After learning about the disaster situation, he went to the quarry to have a closer look and listened to an old man tell the whole process of danger and rescue.

Finally, I went back to the ancestral hall to coordinate Shijiapo and the owner of the quarry to negotiate compensation and refuse quarrying.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this kind of thing means that each has its own reasons, and it is difficult to make a judgment. It can only be coordinated.Otherwise, it will be a rhythm that will kill people for either party.

The county magistrate was supposed to go to Beijing for the exam this year, but he fell ill a year ago, and spent the Chinese New Year in his illness. Although he was recovering after the year, he felt that it was not good for him to be a teacher, so he gave up the opportunity of this imperial exam.

Therefore, when he saw a lot of familiar faces here, he had an idea in his mind. After the meal, the two sides insisted on their opinions, but he asked the brothers of the Fang family if they had any opinions on this matter.

When Fang Ziyuan and the others asked, they naturally knew that the magistrate of the county was used to listening to other people's speeches first, and then drawing conclusions after others made their own arguments, so they were not polite. Everyone held a seminar on the fate of Shijiapo and Shichang on the spot.

Of course, the members of this seminar consciously forgot about the scholar of the Shen family. Even if the old scholar Shen wanted to intervene, they were ignored by the young people and left in anger.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that although the quarry spent tens of thousands of taels to buy this mountain, it has earned it back after a few generations, and now the mountain has been dug and damaged, causing rain and landslides.

If you continue to mine, it will undoubtedly send people into the gate of hell, and the quarry has been taken back by the sky and has become a waste site. We should take this opportunity to close it to appease the anger of the sky and the people.

Being buckled down by such a big hat, the owner of the stone field was so angry that his face was flushed on the spot, and he wanted to reprimand angrily, but he had to endure it for the sake of the county magistrate.

The scholar's suggestion is to ask the Yamen to reclaim this mountain land for the imperial court at the price of waste land, and then order Shijiapo to clean up and maintain it, plant trees and return it to the mountain forest, and no longer exploit it.

In other words, this mountain will be integrated into Pearl Mountain, and no one will belong to it, only the imperial court.As for who owns the title deed after a few years, that is a matter for the future.

The most urgent task now is to solve the problem of the quarry first.

Naturally, the owner of the quarry is not happy to recycle the waste land to the yamen, but the scholars say that the waste land recycling can still earn back the cost, and those who didn’t make it back have already made it back in the past few generations. If they still don’t agree, No way, I can only go to the county government to file a complaint, or I really went to the capital to petition.

At this time, Fang Zizhan reminded him that Mr. Tianyi is the son-in-law of Shijiapo as we all know. If Mr. Yi goes to Beijing for the exam today, if they send a letter to Tianyi Bookstore, they will have a chance to come to the imperial court to ask for orders. Your Majesty With a decree of grace, maybe even the cost of waste land is gone.

(End of this chapter)