Dajin is a patriarchal society. If there are men in the family, outsiders will usually talk to men.
Therefore, although the Wu family is now in charge of the Shen family, when outsiders ask questions, it is still the eldest male present in the Shen family.
Shen Jun did not reply immediately, but waved to Shen Qingqian who was behind him, "Sixth sister, come here and tell everyone what you think."
In the morning, Mrs. Wu mentioned what Shen Qingqian had come to see in the fields yesterday. Shen Jun also wanted to hear what Shen Qingqian would say.
But when some people saw that the Shen family let a little girl decide such a big thing, they immediately became unhappy.
"I said, what's going on with you? She's just a little girl, how can she know this?"
"That's right. She came to see it yesterday and said there was a way to tidy up the land. But I saw that it was all rocks and sand, and there weren't even a few grasses on the ground. What could she do?"
"You don't understand this, right? There aren't many men in the Shen family, and the people who came to open up the land are all women. They are either old or young, how can they drive? Don't they just want to drag us along?"
"When you say that, it seems like it's really..."
There are only three men in the Shen family. The younger men from other families have been assigned to work in the mines, but there are also older men who have been assigned to open up wasteland.
Some families have more gentlemen, and if they are petty, they will inevitably think that the Shen family wants to take advantage of them.
Shen Qingqian frowned when he heard this, feeling very uncomfortable.
She has always believed that unity is strength, so she never thought about who would take advantage of whom. Even at first, she thought that after getting the tools, everyone would dig out the valley together, and then they would not be punished. If you do well, you might even get a prize.
But these people’s ideas are too dirty. Who wants to take advantage of them?
Wu and Shen Jun also looked ugly. They looked at each other and Shen Jun nodded slightly.
Then he walked a few steps and stood on a slope, condescendingly saying to everyone: "Since everyone has concerns, let's divide the areas where each family is responsible for land reclamation. From now on, each family will be responsible for their own land, and no one will have to." Take advantage of someone."
Shen Qingqian didn't expect that Shen Jun would say this. Was he going to completely break up the team and divide the land?
At first, the person who said the unpleasant things was just saying it casually, but unexpectedly it aroused the resonance of several families. In the end, the Shen family themselves proposed the scope of division. Naturally, those with a large labor force in the family would not object.
But others who only had old, weak, women and children at home were unwilling and expressed that they did not want to separate.
Shen Jun raised his hand and pressed it, and said loudly: "Let's do this. Those who want to open up wasteland with our family will stand on the left, and those who don't want to join us will stand on the right."
There was a commotion below and soon divided into two sides.
There were only a few people standing on the left, only the Chen family and the other two families, all of whom were women. Most people stood on the right.
Jun Shen nodded, "In this case, let's divide this valley according to the number of people participating in land reclamation, calculate the size of each person's responsibility, and then divide the families together. Those who are willing to join our family can live next to each other. Our families are connected together so that we can work together later, what do you think?"
After a moment of silence, someone on the right said: "Okay, you are together, we are together, and we will not interfere with each other in the future."
The people on the right responded one after another, "Yes, yes, yes, that's how it should be!"
The people on the left didn't have any objections, so people on both sides circled the valley and began to measure the area.
The ancients had their own way of measuring land area. After measuring both sides with steps, they took the middle value and then began to apportion it to individual people.
They all came from the upper-class circles of the capital, and they had learned some of the six arts of gentleman: etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and counting, so calculations were not a problem. After a while, the size of each person's share was calculated.
