After Magistrate Shen left, Li Zheng called all the refugees together.
"All of you, one hundred and twenty-five, will settle down in Dahe Village and become members of Dahe Village." Li Zheng stood on the big stone under the big locust tree and said loudly, "Dahe Village will accept you. At the same time, , we will also accept your family. You don’t have to work for the second half of today. You go to the city and bring your family here. We will have a day off tomorrow and help each other pack up a place to live. After you settle down, the village will allocate fields to you. "
Just now, Magistrate Shen made some threats, which frightened the hearts of these people.
Li Zheng's words were like a warm spring breeze that soothed the panic in their hearts.
These people fleeing famine are all farmers. For farmers, the most important thing is their fields. Now, they can settle down and have their own fields. Can there be anyone luckier than them in this world?
"However, the land in Dahe Village was not blown by the wind. It cannot be given to outsiders like you for no reason." Li Zheng paused and continued, "Anyone between the ages of fourteen and fifty, regardless of gender, can You will be allocated three acres of land, and the price per acre is five cents. You will hand in the grain after harvest every year. When you have collected five cents, you will own this acres of land."
The refugees all looked surprised.
One person has three acres of land, and a family can have about ten acres of land. If they farm well next year, they will definitely not go hungry again.
Moreover, one acre of land only cost five yen, which was much cheaper than they imagined.
"As long as you live an honest life and work and farm peacefully, you will be a member of Dahe Village." Li Zheng was playing with the long knife gifted by County Magistrate Shen in his hand and said with a smile, "If someone secretly does something Moth... Haha, I have a bad temper. I can't speak but I can do it with my hands. Please be patient."
As he spoke, he waved his long knife and made random gestures.
The refugees saw this knife chop off the heads of four people with their own eyes. They were all so scared that they shrank their necks and did not dare to speak.
"It's getting late, hurry up and pick up your family."
All the refugees dispersed quickly.
They all went to the city to find their families.
There were one hundred and twenty-five refugees, and after including their families, the number came to three hundred and ten.
Most of these women who were used as human shields did not have men. They returned to the city to bring their children or old mothers. Most of those men had wives and children, and some men had all their family members dead... In the end, they brought more children, but There are basically no children under the age of three or four, they are all older children... Cheng Wanwan pondered slightly, and she was very frightened when she thought about it.
There are wastelands in all directions in Dahe Village, and some land is allocated in each direction. Cheng Wanwan suggested that the refugees should be allowed to build houses close to their own fields and live in a dispersed manner to avoid gathering in groups to cause trouble.
A thatched house is built by cutting down trees as supports, putting up dry thatch, and then applying a layer of mud. The house is considered to be built. Although Dahe Village is a little wealthier now, there are still many such thatched houses in the village. It saves money and trouble to build an adobe house.
Some singles are too lazy to build houses and live in dormitories built with help from the village.
In one day, the thatched house was built. First put hay on the roof, apply more mud, then put broad leaves, then put mud, then put a layer of thatch... Repeat this several times to prevent rain leakage.
While the village was busy, Li Zheng was called to the county for a meeting.
The plague in Ping'an County has been extremely well controlled. The city gates are wide open, and there are basically no refugees in the city, because they have been assigned to live in various villages. Looking at it this way, Ping'an County seems to have returned to its former glory. Tranquility and bustling.
Thirty-six Li was sitting down in the county government office.
"We are calling everyone here today mainly to discuss the issue of the refugees." Magistrate Shen was sitting in the high hall. "The resettlement of the refugees is mainly about food. It is the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. It will not be easy to survive until next spring's harvest. We need a lot of help from your village." Helped."
Sun Lizheng couldn't help but said: "Our village is short of food. How can we feed so many refugees..."
Guihua Village has no public property at all, so asking the villagers to provide their own food is even more difficult than climbing to the sky.
Li Lizheng also echoed: "There are forty refugees assigned to our village. Even if they eat one meal a day, that is at least ten kilograms of food."
"Of course the county will not ignore it." Magistrate Shen said, "After the refugees have settled down, they can distribute ten kilograms of food to each person, so they can save money and eat until the New Year. There will be no problem. After the new year, it is spring, and everything recovers. , we can have wild vegetables to satisfy our hunger, and we can survive for a while. Besides, spring plowing is busy, so the villagers can hire the refugees to work and provide meals for the refugees, which is a mutually beneficial thing."
Sun Lizheng said: "No matter how busy the spring plowing is, the people in the village can do it themselves, so why hire refugees..."
Unless someone's family bought wasteland and had no time to clear it, they would hire people to work on it.
But their Osmanthus Village is too poor and there are so many lazy people that no one has bought any land to cultivate it...
Other villages have similar ideas.
Magistrate Shen said coldly: "This is a task assigned to each village. If anyone doesn't accept it, I won't mind changing it."
Although Li Zheng has no official establishment, he is still a moderate official. He is the leader in the village and speaks with authority.
With such a deterrent, those Li Zheng really became honest.
Magistrate Shen stood up and said, "In that case, let's each receive our rations."
One refugee weighs ten kilograms of rice, and forty refugees weigh four hundred kilograms. Except for Dahe Village, the other villages are divided into about forty people on average, some have forty-one people, and some have thirty-eight people. In short, the numbers are almost the same, but Dahe Village received more than 3,000 kilograms of rations.
Other villages were immediately dissatisfied.
"Why did Dahe Village take so much food?"
"Just because there are Suiru people in Dahe Village? It's so unfair."
"Even if Dahe Village develops a cure for plague, we shouldn't treat them so differently. They are all refugees. Who is more valuable than the other?"
"..."
"Quiet!" Magistrate Shen was stunned, "Don't you people ever go out to inquire about what's going on outside? Master Yuan, tell them!"
Master Yuan cleared his throat and said: "Ping'an County needs to resettle a total of more than 1,700 refugees, and each village should be allocated 60 people, so why do you only need to accept 40 people? That's because there are Zhao Lizheng of Dahe Village selflessly accepted more than 300 people! What does it mean that every man has a responsibility? This is what every man has a responsibility for! There is a poem that says well, I dare not forget to worry about the country even though I am in a low position, the matter must be settled before the coffin is closed. Just an ordinary person like Zhao Lizheng..."
The room was silent.
Everyone was shocked by these elegant poems.
Even Zhao Lizheng himself had his eyes widened.
He knows that Cheng Zhao has said this word. Can this word be used on him?
He didn't understand what he meant when he was in a low position, and what he meant when things were decided, but he felt inexplicably powerful about it.
It turns out that in Master Yuan's eyes, he is such a powerful person.
Zhao Lizheng couldn't help but straighten his back, feeling the baptism of eyes from all the other Lizhengs, as if he had reached the peak of his life.
