After kneading his slightly sore wrist, Hou San blew the paper that had not dried up ink on his hands. He had been a teenager and had not written more words when he was studying hard. On the table in front of him was a thick stack of paper, no less than fifty pieces, which recorded the situation of the villagers in the eight villages.

From name, origin, age, and experience, you have to ask clearly whether you have any skills and record them. Thanks to Hou San's hand, there are a few capable guys who are very knowledgeable and can help him complete it together, otherwise he would have to work all night.

At this time, the villagers who had finished drawing lots took bamboo sticks with numbers written in their hands and were taken to the corresponding house by the guys. Anyway, good or bad, all depends on luck, so no one complained even if someone was assigned to a dilapidated earthen house.

On the side of the second floor of the Sihai Cargo Store, Gao Jin looked at the gradually dissipating crowd and turned his head toward Li Laogen beside him, "Wait later, you and Mr. Hou will sort out that list. You must select useful people, and then arrange their work as soon as possible starting tomorrow."

After autumn on the grassland, the weather will become extremely cold after winter. Gao Jin stayed in Gubei Village for a long time, so he should go back to Hekou Fort and get the official positions of the hundreds of households. After all, the soldiers of the General's Mansion have already returned to Camel City. It is estimated that in a few days, this victory should be passed to the court. There is news back.

"Don't worry, Master, I must do this."

Li Laogen replied with a chirp face. How long has it been before the Gao Master taken down the Gubei Village. Although the miserable fugitives were all poor, he just looked at it and found that they were all young and strong men, most of them, with almost no old or weak, and they were all good laborers.

"Master, to be honest, it is a great kindness for you to let them live in the city. Even if you collect their food, it is also necessary. Why bother to spend money to buy it from them? This is not..."

Li Laogen completely regarded himself as the steward of the Gao Mansion. When he thought that Gao Jin wanted to collect grain at the market price and those fugitives, he felt heartbroken! Although this would not cost much money, in his opinion, these fugitives would be tenants of the Gao family in the future. The outside of the frontier was bitter and cold, and there were many bandits. The master not only took them in but also gave them a house. Isn’t it natural to hand over his own food to the master family?

"Old Li, the matter of collecting grain at the price is decided like this, and no changes are allowed without authorization."

Gao Jin knew Li Laogen's temperament. When he heard him mention this, he stared at him with a stern look. When these fugitives were harvesting in autumn, they had already paid the "tax grain" to the Sihai Freight Factory, so he would not take the opportunity to collect the second wave.

"Yes, Master."

Li Laogen was so angry that he was watching Gao Jin, and he nodded in response. He was also very grateful. Fortunately, he asked too much, otherwise he would make a decision without authorization tomorrow, and he would be punished by Gao Master.

Seeing Li Laogen retreating awkwardly, Gao Jin didn't explain much. He asked those fugitives to renovate their houses to work for themselves, so naturally they didn't need to worry about their enthusiasm for labor.

But in the next winter, Gao Jin did not intend to waste so much labor. The Gubei Village has been ruined for many years, and only the Sihai Freight Factory and the buildings near Nancheng are intact, and other places need to be repaired everywhere.

In Gao Jin's understanding, if the people below want to work, they have to pay out real money and silver. However, in this era, the Ming Dynasty really treated the people as pigs and dogs, that is, the border areas were poor. For places like Hekou Fort near the walls, the so-called taxes were basically handled by military generals like Zhang Gui.

But if the mainland is changed, in addition to paying taxes, those people will be escorted by civilians and escort their taxes, not only will the government not give a penny, but they will also have to bring their own food to transport food from thousands of miles away, and even be extorted by those minor officials.

For a long time, everyone seemed to have been accustomed to the superiors' demands and bone-pulling marrow to the subordinates. For example, Li Laogen, who thought he was the steward of the Gao Mansion, should help the main family exploit those fugitives who lived in the city, and even felt that this was in compliance with the rules.

The Sihai Warehouse does not store a lot of grain, but there are many other miscellaneous things. Now hundreds of people are pouring into the city at once. Gao Jin wants to let these laborers work, so of course they can distribute physical goods. Whether it is cloth, salt or various tools, they can satisfy these poor and empty escapees.

In this era, food is the most important foundation, and it is the same for those fugitives. Of course, Gao Jin could forcefully collect food as Li Laogen said, but it was meaningless to do that. Therefore, Gao Jin planned to use the money he could not use for the time being to purchase food, and then sell the cloth and salt in the Sihai Warehouse to earn back the money he sent to the fugitives.

This way, the money was rolled around and finally got back to Gao Jin's hand. However, he bought grain and allowed these fugitives to do their work, which could mobilize their enthusiasm for labor. The most important thing he paid was the physical goods he had to distribute to these fugitives.

The principle of economic circulation and circulation here is simple, but it is difficult for ordinary people in this era to understand. Since they failed to explain it clearly with Hou San, Gao Jin gave up the idea of ​​popularizing this knowledge. It would be better to use facts to explain it after the small economic circulation circle of Gubeizhai was established.

...

At night, Zhao Long and his wife moved into the new house. This was a dirt house covered with tiles. It was much better than the one who built a hut by Zhao's family. The key was that he knew that his wife was pregnant. The guy who brought them then sent a coal stove and coal balls, and taught them how to make a fire and burn the coal stove before leaving.

Looking at the kettle on the coal stove, Zhao Long was a little stunned. He had seen this coal stove before and knew that it was made by Gao Ye who asked those craftsmen to burn it with those black coal balls to keep warm. However, there were not many such coal stoves in the Sihai Freight Shop in total.

"The Grand Master said, the woman is pregnant and has a baby at home. I will send it to you first. We are strong and we are squeezed on the big bunk, and it's also very warm!"

When Zhao Long thought of what the leaver said, he felt hot. He had only heard a kind and righteous hero like Gao Ye in the storyteller. The Shangguan in the fortress where he was originally located was both greedy and cruel. He would have acted like this to care for the people below and did not treat them as human beings at all.

Just when Zhao Long was thinking about being out of sight, his wife suddenly shouted, "Dalang, the water is boiling!"

After hearing the voice of the wife, Zhao Long came to his senses and quickly took off the boiling kettle and went to see the red coal burning in the coal stove. Although he saw that although the boiling water was poured on it, he was relieved because he was not extinguished.

He slapped the palm-leaf fan into the air door a few times. Zhao Long fiddled with tongs for a few more times before stopping. At this time, his family spoke, "Darang, although this high man is a great man, he just boils the water he drinks every day, which is too particular. Let's..."

"What do you know about your wife? Didn't you hear that guy say? There are bugs in the raw water and you will get sick after drinking it. The high-ranking master is polite to us and has given us this coal stove and coal ball, which can not only keep warm, but also boil water and cook rice. What are you talking nonsense?"

Maduo of Zhao Longhun's family is a strong Mongolian woman. She was originally the daughter of a herdsman from a small tribe near Guanyun. Her original tribe lived with the Han people of the White Lotus Sect back then. However, later the tribe was taken to war by the Huoluo Chi tribe, but her father followed the clan leader and never returned.

Maduo finally waited for the evil wolf from the Huoluo Chi tribe. Her mother sacrificed her life before letting her escape. Later, she was wandering to Zhaojiawei and was taken in by a family of fugitives. She was the wife of the two brothers. She had a baby, but it was snowing heavily in the winter of the previous year, and the earth was broken. She was a horse thief. Her two husbands, one of whom died at the hands of the horse thief, and the other was seriously injured and was bitten to death by the wolf. The baby could not stand the cold and died in that cold winter.

Zhao Long was picked up by Maduo from outside Zhao's family. Other men in Zhao's family thought he was a life-threatening man, and no one wanted to ask her to be a wife again, so Maduo saved Zhao Long, who seemed to be breathing at the time.

Since becoming Zhao Long's wife, Ma Duo has always been obedient and obedient. After staying in the Zhao family for a long time, she knew that she was not an innocent person, and Zhao Long had the ability, which made him feel wronged.

At the moment when Zhao Long roared, Ma Duo's eyes turned red and she didn't dare to say anything else. She also knew that the coal stove was a good thing, but that thing was to burn coal balls. She also heard from the mate that the coal balls were made by someone to go down the mine to dig coal. She was afraid that her husband would be taken to go down the mine to dig coal.

There were miners who escaped from the coal mine in Fugu County in Zhaojiawei. Maduo also heard from them that the mine owners were so bad that even the men who went to mine coal would die in a few years. When they died, they threw them into the mine.

"What should we do if you are pulled down to the mine?"

"Okay, what are you thinking? Brother Tong can't believe what you said. Besides, the Grand Master is different from those who care about human life."

Seeing his family crying, Zhao Long finally felt soft and said in a deep voice, "I asked that guy that even if he went to the high-ranking master to mine, it would be better than digging food in the field."

When she heard her husband say this, Maduo no longer cried, but she still didn't believe that there were good people like the high-ranking masters in the world. She grew up and saw and heard all the time the nobles in the tribe whipped and punished the herdsmen at any time, and even if there was a reward, people would be dogs.

"Okay, go to bed early, I'll open the door."

Zhao Long comforted the husband's house and left a crack in front of the house. He remembered that before leaving, the mate told him that if he burned the coal stove to keep warm at night, he would not cover the doors and windows tightly, as that would make him suffocate.

...

In the backyard of Sihai Warehouse, Li Laogen listened to Hou San's recitation of the information about the fugitives in the list, but he felt a little inexplicably aware of crisis. Although he was the steward of Gao's mansion, he only had a better experience than Hou San in front of him. In addition, he had detrimented Gao Ye at the beginning, so when he met Hou San, the manager of Sihai Warehouse, who was said to be a scholar, he was inevitably worried that his status would be insured.

"Manager Li, do you think how these people should be arranged properly?"

Hou San looked at Li Laogen, who seemed a little absent-minded, and asked, in his eyes, Gao Jin was a wise master and worthy of his contribution, but he looked at Gao Ye's actions and had great ambitions, so he never cared about the position of the Grand Manager's position as the Grand House of Gao's house.

However, Hou San had dealt with this guy, and knew that although this old guy had some skills and rich experience in the world, he was too selfish and sometimes liked to be smart, so he simply helped Gao Jin, the lord.

"Those who have not started a family have made up together. When renovating the houses these days, they will look at which ones are thorns and take them out to find a reason to teach them how to understand the rules. You can do the rest of Mr. Hou."

Among the escaped households, there were many young and strong people who had not started their own families. It was not that they were unwilling to ask Mongolian women to be wives. The few Tartar tribes near Gubeizhai all had more women and few men, but those tribes were kept in strict supervision. Although everyone escaped from the walls and sought survival, they wanted them to join Tartars and become Tartars, and not everyone could overcome the hurdle in their hearts.

"It's appropriate to arrange this."

Hou San nodded. It has always been troublesome to take care of single young and strong people. Now there is no prostitute village in Gubei Village. Those single young and strong people don’t kill them well. I’m afraid that over time, they will really cause some bullshits.

"Manager Li, I will ask my friend to re-record the roster and send it to you later."

"Then I'll trouble Mr. Hou."

Li Laogen looked at Hou San with a smile, and wished he could slap him on the face. He sent him a copy of the list, but he didn't know a few words and couldn't understand the list even after taking it. He had to ask those guys.

Seeing Li Laogen leaving without a smile, Hou San didn't care. An old dog like Li Laogen should be beaten from time to time to prevent him from being light and not knowing how much he weighs.

"Everyone has worked hard today, but I still say the same thing. That team of servants is not something that ordinary people can enter, but now it is the time when the high man needs to hire people. Don't let go of what I teach you."

There were three other friends in the room, who were not young, and they were about twenty years old, all of them looked clever and clever. When Hou San saw that they had a cleverness in the past, he taught them to read and how to settle accounts. Fortunately, these three people did not disappoint his cultivation and all persevered.

Now all three people know two or three thousand words. Although the words are written in modest form, they can at least write them completely and clearly. Those business names placed in the wall can be held on their own even if they are released.

"Thank you, Marquis, for your advice."

All three guys are smart and know that they are born weak, and even if they practice, they may not be able to squeeze into the team Ding. They might as well follow Hou San, the old boss, and maybe they can make a future under the command of Gao Ye in the future.
Chapter completed!