Lin Yuanqiu has already made plans. From the day after tomorrow, he plans to divide the vacant plots in the city into pieces, then number them, and then each village will draw lots on behalf of its own village. Whichever piece is drawn will be the one.
After the land is equally divided, each village is then asked to arrange its own manpower to lay the foundation for the villagers.
As for the government, they only need to send people to supervise the situation.
The officials and scribes quickly received the notices and house plans they were to post, and then set off happily.
Lin Yuanqiu was not stingy either. As early as the day before yesterday, he had sent someone to the car dealership to hire a carriage. Counting the three that the government office itself had, it was very convenient for them to travel today.
After everyone left, Lin Yuanqiu, Yan Tongzhi, and He Tongpan also got on the carriage. Today they are going to Lanshi Village, which has the largest population. There are more than 1,100 villagers in the whole village.
As the top leader of Yongning Prefecture and the initiator of the large-scale relocation decision, Lin Yuanqiu naturally has the responsibility to go to the scene to understand the real thoughts of the villagers. Only by knowing what the people are thinking can we avoid unnecessary troubles in the future, and can we make the big move better. The move was successfully completed.
Therefore, he specially picked the most populous village, Lanshi Village, thinking that he would be able to draw a lot of good opinions and suggestions from others.
Today, in addition to the four officers, there are also Lin Sanzhu, Lin Dazhu and seven others who are going with them.
With so many villagers in Lanshi Village, there will definitely be someone who will explain the details of the relocation to them later, and whether it is Lin Dazhu, Lin Erzhu, or Lin Yuanfeng, they have already memorized the notice.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuanqiu was once again grateful that his cousin and the others could follow him to Saibei, as well as his father-in-law and the others. Otherwise, he and his father would definitely be busy.
Lanshi Village is located in the southernmost part of Yongning Prefecture. Compared with other villages, it is the farthest from the prefecture city. It took the carriage almost half an hour to reach the place.
The government officials specially brought gongs today.
Therefore, whether they were idle at home or villagers working in the fields, they soon heard the sound of "dang-dang-dang-dang" gongs coming from the entrance of the village.
The common people who were accustomed to hearing the sound of gongs from the government must have known that this was a notification from the government about something, and they hurried over.
The villagers whose homes were close to the village entrance naturally arrived first. When they saw that in addition to official officials, there were also several adults in official uniforms standing among the visitors, they all knelt down and kowtowed.
The villagers were all wondering, what happened today? Why did the official come here in person?
Before anyone could think clearly, they saw two officials holding notices walking quickly to the main house in the village.
Seeing this, the villagers quickly followed.
By the time Lin Yuanqiu and the others arrived, the villagers couldn't help but start talking. It turns out that He Laoliu from this village knew one of the gong-playing government officials, so he just went up to inquire about it.
As a result, this inquiry almost made He Laoliu stunned by the surprise, so naturally he couldn't help but tell everyone about it loudly.
A middle-aged man was surprised, "What! Are you asking us all to move to the city?"
"Yes, the official wants to allocate homesteads in the city to us all, and it doesn't cost a penny."
"No need to spend money? How is this possible? He Laoliu, you didn't hear wrong, right?"
The villagers on the side nodded repeatedly, thinking that He Laoliu might have heard the wrong words because of his poor ears.
If they hadn't seen the official there, the other old farmers who had lost their teeth would definitely have said that they had never seen such a good time in the government in most of their lives.
Therefore, He Laoliu might not have woken up last night.
Before He Laoliu could jump to his feet in anxiety, the yamen boy holding the gong smiled at everyone and said, "Of course this is true. If you don't believe it, we brothers will read the notice to you several times later." .”
Li Zheng quickly brought out the batter. Lin Yuanfeng and others saw him and hurriedly stepped forward to help post it. There were many people and the speed was fast. After a while, the relocation notice and more than a dozen house plans were posted at Li Zheng's house. on the fence.
Seeing the expectations in the eyes of the villagers, the slim-faced officer didn't waste any time. He quickly read the content on the notice and read it word by word.
As for the villagers, there were more and more villagers surrounding him. However, no matter how large the number of villagers were, they remained quiet for fear of mishearing the notice read by the Yamen.
After hearing that the government was really going to give each of their families free housing land, the villagers could no longer contain their excitement.
"God, is this true? We are not dreaming!"
A young woman forgot that she was outside at the moment, hugged the young farmer next to her, and said happily, "Dad, this is the foundation of the city. Now we are all city dwellers."
"Yes, yes, city dwellers, city dwellers!"
The elderly farmers, who were still slightly frowning, were finally relieved when they heard that the houses in the village still belonged to them.
After feeling reassured, the old farmers, like other villagers, immediately turned their attention to the wall on the other side. There were various pictures of houses posted here. Everyone wanted to see which house style suited their family.
Seeing how excited and positive the villagers were, Lin Yuanqiu's last trace of worry disappeared.
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Chapter 194 Expecting Childbirth
May is a hot season, but no matter how hot it is, in the eyes of Yan Tongzhi and He Tongpan, it is not as exciting as the villagers busy building houses.
It can be said that since the beginning of this month, when the villages were holding lots to determine the plots of land for each village, the building of houses has begun one after another.
As for why the move was so rapid, apart from the fact that the busy farming season will come in two months and they are worried that they will not be able to make free time, more importantly, it is the villagers' desire for houses in the city.
Therefore, from the moment they learned that they were allocated a homestead site, the villagers began various preparations for building a house. The adults went up to the mountains to chop down trees to make wooden beams and purlins. The women made mud bricks at home, while the children went to the river beach to pick up stones to prepare for the base of the walls.
Many families who plan to ram mud walls directly go to carpenters to build wooden frames for the rammed walls.
In their words, if you have a guy who builds mud walls at home, you don't have to wait for others to use it before it's your turn, so you won't waste time.
Then there are the manpower for ramming walls. There aren’t many strong laborers nowadays. Although they are not experienced wall rammers, they have basically done this kind of work. As long as the speed is slower and the movements are more careful, they can still do it. The houses were built.
The most commendable thing is the integrity of the villages that are now being sold. No, after all the homesteads have been allocated, people actually learned from the way they went to the government office to draw lots, and also arranged lots for the villagers to choose their houses. The base method comes.
As a result, the part that made the villagers most worried was passed safely. As for why the villagers were worried, they were of course worried that Li Zheng would show favoritism and give good positions to his own family.
Drawing lots depends on one's own luck, and no one can make a difference.
In this way, after each family's homestead was in place, the bustling scene of building houses began in the entire Yongning City.
The people in the city did not show any resistance to the fact that farmers from the countryside were moving to the city.
Not to mention that this is a matter decided by the government and they have no right to interfere. Even they themselves hope that more people can live in the city. Otherwise, the place would be deserted, and no one would dare to go out even before it gets dark at night.
Especially those households in the south of the city often use thick wooden sticks to hold the door from the inside in broad daylight, for fear that bad guys will break into the house and then they will be ordered to do nothing every day and the earth will not work. It is scary to think about it.
Things are different now. Since the villagers came to build houses, people come and go every day, and there is popularity everywhere.
And these families no longer used wooden sticks to hold the door against the door every day, but they also had the brainpower to start a business selling steamed buns and porridge.
Because the free area in the south of the city was the largest, Lin Yuanqiu specially arranged the most populous village of Lanshi here.
Although the villagers have brought iron pots and grains from the village, they are preparing to build a temporary stove to facilitate their meals. But there are hundreds of families building houses here, and there will always be times when they are too lazy to do it themselves, or are too busy to cook. Now, isn't the opportunity for city people to make money come.
There are tea sellers, steamed bun sellers, and rice sellers.
Knowing that people in the village were reluctant to spend money, the man selling steamed buns specially scooped out a few more bowls of thick noodles when kneading the dough, so that he could buy two steamed buns for one penny. When the villagers who cooked saw it, they simply put away their stoves and bought and ate directly.
As for the rice sellers, the same goes for them. They go to the grain store and buy the cheapest broken rice for cooking. As for the vegetables, they are simply cooked into vegetable soup. People who want to sell an extra penny per portion will add some minced meat to the soup, so that when the villagers buy rice, they will scoop a spoonful of vegetable soup directly on the rice, and then The soup flowed along the rice grains to the bottom of the bowl, but the thin meat foam was spread on the top of the rice, making people drool. They picked up the chopsticks and picked up the bowl. A large bowl of rice soaked up the broth quickly. It can be eaten.
Seeing that such a large portion of rice with minced meat is only sold for three cents, more and more people are buying and eating it.
In this way, more and more people are doing small businesses in the city, and the food sold is starting to be of all kinds. Anyway, as long as the price is not expensive, I often go out with a basket to sell, and when I come back, the basket is empty.
Seeing such a scene, many villagers quickly started selling food, and also carried home-made steamed buns and pancakes to sell everywhere.
Even though there are more and more people doing business, demand often exceeds supply. After all, there are more than 37,000 people building houses this time. Even if you exclude less than half of the number of old and young people, there is still a market of nearly 30,000 people.
It can be said that this major relocation brings joy to both urban and rural residents every day.
Many people even hope that the construction of their houses will take longer.
But how could it be possible? By the end of June, houses were beginning to have roof beams.
Then something unexpected happened to Lin Yuanqiu. He originally thought that many villagers would use thatch to build roofs, but less than half actually did so.
Some people even drove ox carts to Shizhou Prefecture or other counties to buy tiles because they could not buy tiles locally.
In Dinghu County, the situation is almost the same. Before the roof of the house is even built, villagers are looking for tiles everywhere.
Lin Yuanfeng and Lin Yuansong were really puzzled, so they went directly to the villagers to find out the reason.
Since the big relocation of Dinghu County began, Lin Yuanfeng, Lin Yuansong, as well as Lin Yuanhuai and Lin Yuanbai have been staying at the county government to help out.
The four of them followed Wang Xiancheng and visited the place where the villagers built their houses every day in order to discover and solve problems in time.
The reason why Lin Yuanqiu arranged for his cousin and others to come over was because the county government was severely short of manpower. The entire yamen, including him as the part-time magistrate, has only about forty people in total, and one-third of these people still have to guard the city gate.
The reason for the lack of manpower is that the expenses cannot be paid for salaries. Therefore, Duzhi County at that time could only reduce and reduce the manpower of the yamen.
Because of this, while letting his cousins go to Dinghu County, Lin Yuanqiu also sent a dozen government officials there, so that he could protect the safety of his cousins and help them work together.
As for the place to live, there is no need to worry. The backyard of the county government office originally belonged to the county magistrate, and now Lin Yuanfeng and the others can live there.
When Lin Yuanfeng and the others asked why the villagers were unwilling to build houses with thatch, Lin Yuanqiu in Yongning City also found out.
Speaking of which, this was the inspiration the villagers got from the evil deeds of the Shanrong people.
After receiving such inspiration, for many villagers, in addition to pain, the only thing left is sadness.
It turns out that when the Shanrong people robbed the food and left, they basically did one thing, which was to throw torches on the thatched roofs. In this way, many people not only lost their food, but also had their homes burned down at the same time.
All experiences will become experiences, and so will the villagers, even if this experience is unforgettable.
When the Shanrong people burned down their houses, everyone immediately thought about the flammable thatched roofs, and then considered the close proximity of every household in the city.
In their opinion, because the houses in the village are not adjacent to each other's walls, when there is a fire, their family is basically the only one who is burned. But in the city, people go from house to house. If a fire breaks out, it won't be a disaster for one family.
At this time, Li Zheng from Lanshi Village was talking to Lin Yuanqiu about this matter, "My lord, although building a house with thatch can save money, I'm afraid this method can only be applied in the countryside. In the city, the houses are not even close to each other." Far away, some are even separated by a wall. Dry thatch is most afraid of sparks. If a house accidentally catches fire, it may be connected to a large area."
When Lin Yuanqiu came home and learned what Li Zheng said to Lao Lintou and the others, everyone present almost broke into a cold sweat just like Lin Yuanqiu did when they first heard it.
Especially Lao Lintou, who couldn't help but blame himself for how he had forgotten that thatch was flammable at his age.
I still remember that when I was in Xiaogaoshan Village, whenever I saw a house setting off firecrackers for a happy event, the nearby families would stare at their roofs, for fear that firecracker debris would jump up and set the roof on fire. Especially on New Year's Eve, who doesn't fill the water tank at home and always pay attention to what's going on outside the house.
As what was said there, people in the city live close to each other. If a fire accidentally breaks out, it will not be the problem of one family or two.
Thinking of this, Old Lintou couldn't help but feel happy, "Fortunately the villagers have thought carefully, otherwise it would be too late by the time something goes wrong."
At that time, the people might even complain to the Shangguan government about why they were asked to move to the city.
Seeing his father's remorseful look, Lin Sanzhu said, "Dad, I really can't blame us for not knowing about this. Think about it, when our family was in Xiaogaoshan Village, not only did we encounter thieves who burned down the house, but also in the village. It’s rare for people to accidentally burn down their house, so naturally they won’t think about it.”
"That's right, if Yuan Qiu hadn't asked today, I wouldn't have thought of this even if I killed my son." Lin Dazhu said that this was the first time he had heard such a thing.
"Yuanqiu, I'm afraid many people can't afford the money to buy tiles."
Lao Lintou knows this firsthand. When having enough food is a problem, how can he spare the extra money to buy tiles?
Lin Yuanqiu naturally took this into consideration, and heard what was being said there. Many villagers borrowed money to build tiles, and those who had already built thatched houses had to be replaced with tiles as soon as possible. To do this, naturally Silver.
