novelraw Chapter 147 Impostor County Magistrate World 7
Chapter 147 Impostor County Magistrate World 7
With the help of two literate people, the progress of the recruitment process was much faster. In just three days, more than 100 people were recruited.
Anxi divided 30 people into one group, three of which were heavy laborers, and the other group was women, who helped with cleaning and cooking.
One group is responsible for repairing the county government office, the second group is responsible for cleaning up the garbage on the county road and other public places, and the third group is responsible for building houses on both sides of the main street divided by Anxi.
Originally, there were only about 600 people living in Huxian County, that is, more than [-] households. However, the land here is relatively large, so everyone lives in a loose manner. It does not look like a county town, but a large village.
Those with good relationships gather together, while others live scatteredly.
Thanks to the remote location, the people here are very clear about the situation of other people's homes. On the contrary, there are fewer petty thefts, and it was quite stable before.
There is a main road in front of the county office, but it is only a small street, not long, and people will come here to set up stalls and do a little business.
Most of the time, there are only a few shops open in the county, such as pharmacies, grain stores, cloth stores, etc., and nothing else, which shows how poor this county is.
The daily income of the common people is still farming. Although this is a county seat, most of them are farmers, and their fields are not far away at the foot of the mountain.
Because they live in an empty space, they can seriously injure vegetables and fruits at home.
Therefore, the entire county is just a rural area with a relatively large land area and a slightly larger population.
Anxi directly divided the main road and asked the three groups of people to build houses on both sides according to the same specifications, with shops in the front and yards in the back.
As for the families who originally built houses on it, Anxi came here according to the modern demolition households. Anyway, there are not many, only six families.
If they are willing to want a house, they can just share it with their family when it is built. If they don't want it, Anxi can also use money and food to pay for it.
Those families are also good people. After inquiring with the leaders of the three groups, they knew that Anxi planned to build houses with blue bricks, and each household would have a backyard, which was much better than their original ones. Naturally, they were very willing. Also actively joined the recruitment to help the construction.
After the three groups were fully recruited, Anxi began to arrange to recruit other people, such as setting up a kiln to burn bricks in the fourth group, cutting trees in the mountain in the fifth group, and so on.
After the workers started to work, they were supervised by their respective team leaders. Before they left work, the team leaders went to Wang Wen to report to Wang Wen to collect today's grain and distribute it to the members of the team.
The food for the five groups was distributed uniformly by Wang Wen. In addition, Anxi recruited a female director to take care of a group of women.
The women are divided into two groups, one group is responsible for laying hands, and the other group is responsible for cooking and delivering meals.
The laborers are more tiring, but they also earn more, the same wages as the male workers, two catties of grain a day, while the cooks are less, one catty and two taels a day.
The women's director should also report to Wang Wen and receive the food needed at noon that day. In the afternoon, she is responsible for taking the food back to the women for distribution.
Wang Wen, the accountant, was in charge here. Anxi went around and found that there was no problem, so he went to the recruiting place.
Old man Li wrote conscientiously, and the completed form has been put aside.
Anxi went over to pick it up, and found that it was written in great detail and sorted out into categories, which shows that old man Li is a little bit rational about who will do what.
Since he can distinguish clearly and arrange things well, Anxi naturally entrusts him with full authority. "The brick kiln and the building need people, and the ruined temple on the mountain in the south also needs people to repair. You can figure out how to assign the people." , and then I will hand it over to you.”
Seeing that Anxi was willing to trust him, old man Li nodded repeatedly, expressing that he remembered clearly.
Anxi flipped through the forms again and pointed out a few people, "These people can be the team leader and deputy team leader. If they don't do well, they can be replaced later. That's it for now."
After reading those few pages, old man Li was a little puzzled about Anxi's selection criteria, but he didn't say anything. He would do what Anxi said.
Anxi thought for a while, "In addition, you recruit some old and weak women and children who do not have strong labor at home, and let them clean up the sundries in the fields, and find some strong ones to take them with them. The wages should be calculated as one catty of grain per day."
It wasn't that Anxi didn't want to give more, but that if he gave too much, he was afraid that someone would steal and play tricks, so he wanted to do the easy work of cleaning up.
Old man Li was a little puzzled. He didn't know who this Mr. An was, and how could he spend food to find someone to clear the fields?
Those fields are owned by the owner. When the flood subsides completely, they will clear them up and plant new ones immediately. Isn’t Anxi’s doing this a waste of food?
For Anxi, this is naturally not a waste.
He is the county magistrate, and disaster relief was originally his task. The labor force can be arranged to do the work, and then exchanged for food.But what about those who have no strength?
It is absolutely impossible to distribute food for free, not to worry about scarcity but to worry about inequality. Once some people can eat free food, others will not be willing to work.
Therefore, even if Anxi wanted to let everyone have food to eat, he had to find something for them to do in exchange for labor.Even these things are meaningless to Anxi!
But clearing up the fields is not useless, at least it will save the people trouble, and it will allow them to farm faster.
Fearing that old man Li would not understand the reason and the matter could not be handled well, Anxi secretly showed him the official seal of the county magistrate.
Old man Li was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed, but was stopped by Anxi, "I won't let others know at the moment, you just do your job well, try to arrange everyone's job well, if the recruitment is full, Just come and talk to me."
Old man Li nodded repeatedly, looking at Anxi's eyes with a lot of respect.
Anxi didn't reveal his identity, but he also had his own considerations.
He wanted to wait until the common people had received his favors and received their own food, and completely listened to his words before disclosing the identity of the county magistrate.
So now the food he uses to pay his wages is his own, not from the Taiping warehouse.
There were very few county magistrates in Hu County in the past, and the daily affairs should be handled by the master book and clerks. Now that they are gone, the whole county is like a mess.
If he reveals his identity as the county magistrate, first of all, he will not say whether these refugees will listen. Even if they do, there may be undue hope in their hearts.
For example, I hope that the court can be responsible for disaster relief and distribute relief food to them!
And Anxi, who represents the county magistrate, will bear all their extravagant hopes, hoping that he can open a warehouse to release grain, hope that he can provide seeds, and so on.
These are correct, originally the court should be in charge, but the current situation is that the prefecture doesn't care, let alone the court, everything needs to be handled by Anxi himself.
Since he did something good by himself, Anxi would not pass on the benefits to the imperial court. At least he had to establish authority in the hearts of the people before letting them know that he was the county magistrate.
He also told them that he did this out of good intentions, and that he could not bear the suffering of the people under his rule, rather than the imperial court's order, and that the food used to relieve them was all out of his own pocket.
As for why the grain from the Taiping warehouse is not used, the county magistrate is qualified to use it, isn't he?
It's very simple. When he came to take office, there was no one in the county government office, and no one could help him with the paperwork for taking office. Therefore, he still has a bad reputation and is naturally not qualified to use the Taiping warehouse.
Moreover, he was new here, and he didn't know where the Taiping warehouse was. If he wanted to blame it, he could blame those bookkeepers for leaving without a trace.
In this way, no matter whether the Master and the others will come back in the future, they will not be able to shake Anxi's position.
Youdao is soft-spoken, so after this, the entire Hu County will be firmly in Anxi's hands, and he can change the people in the county government as he wants, whether it is the chief secretary or others, as long as he is happy.
He can also take advantage of the current situation to promote his own staff and directly take away the rights of those people.
At that time, Hu County will really be his Anxi's voice.
In troubled times, it can be regarded as a place to settle down.
After solving the current personnel scheduling problem, Anxi began to think about the next plan.
The exchange of work for food is only temporary, and the first task of the people is to plant the land, but in the current month, it is too late to plant anything.
He has to see what crops can survive the winter, at least let the people survive until next summer to harvest.
Anxi has read the county annals and knows the climate characteristics here. It is located at the junction of the north and the south. It should be cold in winter and hot in summer. However, the geographical location of Hu County is special. It is surrounded by mountains in three places, and they are still high mountains, which just block the cold air coming from the north. Living.
In addition, the south is close to the sea, with the adjustment of marine climate, the temperature in winter is quite warm, suitable for planting winter wheat.
The only trouble is that rice is the main plant here, and spring rice is usually sown before Qingming, that is, in February and March, but winter wheat will be harvested after April, that is to say, there will be one or two months in between are coincident.
Anxi found some experienced old farmers in the county and asked them if there would be any problem in planting rice a month or two later in Hu County.
The old farmers immediately waved their hands and said, "No, absolutely not. Our ancestors have done this for generations. It must not be too late. If you are too late, you will not be able to harvest."
Anxi nodded and continued to ask, "Then when will you plant the seedlings?"
"Transplanting? What transplanting?" The old farmers were puzzled.
Anxi paused, is there no rice transplanting technology here?
He asked carefully, and there really wasn't one here.
Farmers usually scatter the seeds in February and March. In order to allow the rice to grow, they also scatter very carefully and evenly, usually one by one.
Anxi had an idea in his mind, and immediately went back to check the information. Originally, the spring rice was sown in February and March, but the rice transplanting would take place in April and May.
You don't need to use all the fields for sowing, just set aside some.
In other words, as long as he brings out the technology of transplanting rice seedlings, there will be enough time.
The only question now is how he will convince the people!