Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 108 Annoyed (3)
Seeing that the crowd dispersed and wanted to leave, Xianglai raised her hand and said, "That person, you stay, I will tell you something."

She was referring to the one who instigated everyone to rush into the courtyard.

As soon as the man saw Xianglai pointing at him, he ran away.

But Xu Che didn't allow him to escape easily, so he caught up with him in a few steps, grabbed him by the collar, threw him in front of Xianglai, and said, "Mother, you think you are a rabbit, and you still want to escape from Lao Tzu's house?" palm!"

At this time, the injured long-term workers hadn't left yet, and they didn't know what Xianglai was doing to catch this man back, so they all stared blankly there.

Xianglai looked at the man on the ground and asked, "I just want to talk to you, why are you running away? Could it be that you have a guilty conscience?"

The man got up from the ground and said: "Who, who is guilty!"

Xianglai sneered, and said: "I think you were the loudest just now, and I thought you were a little bit courageous, so you're just so good at running away... Tell me, which village are you from?"

Tens of thousands of acres of land, excluding those leased to tenants, employs more than a thousand workers, and of course it is impossible for them all to live in one village.In order to facilitate management, the previous manager of Hengyuan Farm arranged the villages in order of Heng [-], Heng [-]... and arranged a total of thirteen villages.

Seeing Xianglai asking, the man replied, "I'm from Hengqi Village."

"What is your name?"

"Zhang Gui."

After listening to his answer, Xianglai looked at the injured and asked, "Are any of you from Hengqizhuang?"

One who sat on the ground clutching his ankle replied, "I'm also from Hengqizhuang."

Xianglai nodded and said, "Oh, then do you know this Zhang Gui?"

The man said: "I know him, but he didn't come to our village not long ago, and he came here two days before you took over."

Hearing this, Xianglai turned around and asked the person in front of her, "Then where did you live before you arrived at Hengqi Village?"

The man's expression changed a little, and he said, "I, I'm in...Hengyi Village."

Looking at his expression, Xianglai knew that there was something strange, but she didn't continue to ask, and said to Shunzi and Dachang: "Brother-in-law, Brother Dachang, go and find all the managers of the villages, I have something to say .”

Shunzi and Dachang agreed, and Lama went out to find someone.

Xianglai said to Zhang Gui again: "Don't go away, stay here with me, and I will make sure you have a full meal."

While talking, Tianlai had already called the doctor, and the injured people were helped into the house. The doctor massaged these people and applied plaster.

Xianglai took advantage of the time when the doctor was treating these people to inquire again, and found out that the most troubled people were from Hengqizhuang, and most of the others were from the two villages adjacent to Hengqizhuang.

Xiang Lai has a plan in mind.

In the afternoon, the stewards of Gege Zhuangzi arrived one after another, and Xianglai asked again.

Although all the original stewards of Hengyuan Farm were taken away, these stewards were also selected by Shunzi and Guifang from the old people in each village, and they knew everything about the village.

After careful questioning, Xianglai found out that Xu Zongde had exchanged the long-term workers in each village before withdrawing his staff, and also took away the food left by each village for the long-term workers. During the period after Xianglai took over, The long-term workers eat all the food they have secretly saved. They persist until now, but there is really no food to eat.

Xianglai was annoyed after hearing this, and she was afraid of being tricked by Xu Zongde. When she took over, she asked about the wages, but she didn't expect Xu Zongde to wait here to enrich her. There are more than 1000 people, and the food and drink for a year is not worth a penny. small overhead.

And aside from this, Xu Zongde's transfer of long-term workers everywhere must be to put people in the farm, ready to disrupt the situation for himself. Today's trouble for food is just the beginning. From now on, every link of farming, weeding, and grain harvest Do yourself a bad job, and you won't have any crops until autumn!
After understanding the situation, she sat there silent for a while, and said: "Everyone, go back to each village first, ask someone to buy it and send it to each village. You go back and calm people's hearts, and then count the number of people who will be transferred to each village. In a moment, tell me their names and their original location."

After the managers agreed, they went out one after another and went back to various places.

Seeing that everyone was leaving, Guifang came to Xianglai and said, "Xianglai, I was negligent this time and made things like this."

Xianglai said: "It's okay, they will make other troubles when there is no food. It will let me find out earlier, it's better than secretly playing tricks on me after the spring plowing starts. Take this as a lesson for you and me, and we will meet again in the future." If you ask more questions, you can avoid it.”

Even though she said this, Gui Fang still felt sorry and said, "Then what should we do now? So many people have no food to eat, do you still have enough money?"

These close people are very clear about Xianglai's family background, and they are always helping her plan.

Xianglai smiled and said: "It's okay, I will think of a way, let's go shopping for food first, if it delays for a few more days, I'm afraid something will happen."

"Well, I'll go right now."

Xiang Lai said: "You'd better not go, and find someone else you can trust. There are not enough manpower to raise seedlings, and we are the only ones who know how to do it."

Guifang said: "Why don't my parents-in-law go, they are not busy now, and they are in good health."

Xianglai thought about it, Xiufen's parents were smart, they had no evil intentions, and they had long intended to come to her to do something, so it would be good to let them go, so Tianlai and Huiling went back to Yanjiangtun with the bank notes, and found Xiufen's parents went to the villages to buy grain together.

Then she, Gui Fang and others led the long-term workers in charge of the rice fields to continue raising seedlings.

The managers of the various villages were quite troublesome, so they sent up the list of manpower transfers the next day.Xiang Lai saw that there were quite a few of them, a full one-third of the people.

Of course, not all of these people are Xu Zongde's cronies, and they were transferred in large numbers just to facilitate concealment.

Xu Che pressed Zhang Gui, this person only mentioned a few names, and Xianglai couldn't guarantee that he was chasing and biting randomly. He didn't tell him what happened to these few people, but he just kicked Zhang Gui out and wouldn't allow him any more. Go to work in any one of Hengyuan Farm.

Afterwards, while supervising the cultivation of seedlings, he thought that there must be Xu Zongde's cronies among those who were transferred, and those who were not transferred were basically not suspected. It would be better to transfer the long-term workers of the thirteen Zhuangzi again, and return those who had not been transferred before. To re-divide the village together, the staff transferred by Xu Zongde are gathered together, which is more convenient for supervision.

When she was free from work, she discussed it with everyone, and everyone thought the idea was good, and came up with another idea to reform the working system.

In the past, a group of people worked together, regardless of whether they were hiding traitors or working hard, they all got the same money, but now the fields are evenly divided, each person is divided into how many tasks, and the money is paid at the end of the year depending on the quality. Those who produce a lot of food will take more, and those with poor land will take less.

(End of this chapter)