Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 228 Preferential Policies

When the people from Shangjiao Village heard this, they were refreshed and asked, "Is there any food for sale in your market? Is it expensive?"

"It's not expensive, it's a stall set up by the county lord. It sells grain from outside. It's a little cheaper than the grain shop, but it's only sold to people who pay for work, and each person can only Buy five buckets."

  Chen Fangdao: "If you want to buy food, you have to get a wooden sign with me when you go back. You can buy food with a wooden sign. You have to return the wooden sign to me when you go back."

  The villagers of Shangjiao Village happily responded, and they also asked about the place of the market. They were relieved when they learned that in another big village, it was not too far from here.

   This is a welfare that Zhao Hanzhang specially left for the workers.

   After the winter solstice, grain prices began to rise, and the increase was not small. After Zhao Hanzhang announced the food for work, the grain price dropped slightly, but it still slowly increased.

  The closer to the spring, the higher the price of food.

   Zhao Hanzhang knows that the situation in Xiping County is not bad, because since the occupation of Xiping County, she has been providing food for work. Although every household has a small amount of food, she will not be hungry in the short term.

The situation in other counties is much more serious than that in Xiping County.

   She did not want to conflict with the gentry in Xiping County on the issue of grain prices, especially since a considerable part of the grain shops in Xiping County were opened by the Zhao clan.

   Therefore, Zhao Hanzhang did not release a large amount of food to stabilize prices, but she also took some measures to show her attitude.

   For example, she asked people to set up food outlets in the village fairs below to sell food to all the people who paid for work.

In such a cold day, the basic family situation is not very good, and the content of the food for work released by the yamen, except for some of the work that women can do, such as making quilts, making clothes, rubbing thatch, etc. , most of the other work is the work of building roads, digging canals and reservoirs that can only be done by strong laborers.

   They are full, but there are elderly, wives and children at home.

   That's why Zhao Hanzhang specially set up food points so that they could buy food at a slightly lower price.

   In order to prevent people from taking advantage of the loopholes, she gave each supervisor the power to issue wooden stickers, and workers who wanted to go to the grain station to buy grain could go with wooden sticks to buy grain.

   As soon as this move was made, the price of food in Xiping County dropped slightly. Everyone was very sensible and did not make trouble for her in this matter.

   In addition, a considerable part of the grain shops in Xiping County belonged to the Zhao clan. With Zhao Ming around, they would not bother Zhao Hanzhang on this matter.

  Eight days later, Chen Fang took the account book and went to the county government office to withdraw the copper coins, and then sent them to everyone.

   By convention, they are given a day off for each paycheck.

  The people of Shangjiao Village ran to the market when they got the money, and bought food with the copper coins they just handed out.

  100 cents in ten days, and now the price of grain is 20 cents a dou of wheat, beans are cheaper, 12 cents a dou, and rice is more expensive, 22 cents a dou.

   This is only the price of Zhao Hanzhang's grain shop. In the county grain shop, the price of various grains is about two to five cents more expensive.

   This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Hanzhang can recruit so many workers in winter. Because of this benefit, the value of copper coins paid for by work has risen by 20% to 50%.

   Therefore, people who can endure hardships and are willing to endure hardships, even if they are richer, will come out and participate in the cash-for-work.

   Some people in Shangjiao Village bought food with all their money, while others left part of their money and only bought some food.

  Then we will carry the food home together.

The rest of the people in Shangjiao Village stayed at home and did not move. The family lacked some strong labor that they could eat, and the food they could eat every day also increased a little bit, but they still dared not let go of eating, so they would eat every day. Eat more porridge that can see the bottom.

When Qian Jin and the others entered the village, the village was very quiet, but the young men were very excited, with uncontrollable smiles on their faces, and they shouted loudly when they arrived at the entrance of the village, "My son, my son, we're back, I'm back. Bring back some food—"

There was some noise in the quiet village. Someone came out leaning against the wall. When they saw the young men carrying or carrying grain bags, they were overjoyed. They seemed to have strength under their feet. Said: "Is it food?"

   "It's grain, I bought five buckets."

  A boy had already walked past them and walked towards his house. As soon as he entered, he was surrounded by his mother and younger siblings. He proudly said, "I also bought five buckets."

   Not everyone bought wheat, some people bought some beans, so that they could buy five buckets of grain and still have some money left over.

  The family looked around at the copper coins they brought back and were amazed, "It's actually rich."

"It will be sent once every ten days. We have asked. It will take at least twenty days to clear the river, so that we can bring back food twice. I guess the family can save some food and eat spring wheat. "

   "Then if you dig a little slower, wouldn't you be able to do it for a long time?"

   "Don't dare to be lazy. There was a **** in Xiajiao Village. He was lazy when digging a canal. He was told twice and he didn't change it. Then he was arrested. No one knows where to send it."

   "Everyone in Xiajiao Village is like this, not to mention those of us who went to other places. I heard that if you don't obey, the official will directly arrest them and throw them into the mountains for mining, and you won't be able to come out for the rest of your life."

   The family was taken aback, and hurriedly warned, "Then don't be lazy, be diligent."

   "We are diligent, huh, unlike the people in Xiajiao Village, who do not know happiness in the midst of happiness, they just dig ditches, but we are digging rivers."

At this time, Chen Fang was instructing the villagers in Xiajiao Village, "The people in Shangjiao Village were here a few days ago, in front of them, I will give you face, so I refrained from saying it, now that they are not here, we will Let's talk about it."

  Chen Fang scolded: "You are always so procrastinating in your service and work? You can't be exhausted, and the ditch was completed a day later than planned!"

   "It's cold, the ground is frozen, and it's hard to dig the top layer."

   "Fart, no matter how hard it is to dig, can it be harder than dredging the river?" Chen Fang sighed: "Look at Renshangjiao Village, they occasionally step into ice water, don't they still do well?"

   "Don't be lazy because of my leniency. You have seen the result of the pillar. Next time, if the construction is not completed on time, he will not be the only one who will be arrested."

   Zhuzi's family heard the mention of Zhuzi and immediately cried and asked, "Lizheng, where did they take Zhuzi? Did they kill him?"

   "Who wants his life?" Chen Fang said: "What's the use of his life? Don't worry, he can't die, isn't he lazy, he got paid but didn't do anything, the county magistrate fined him to grind."

He said: "In order to prevent people from being lazy and running away, all the punished people have to change their land. Now our prisoners who are grinding mills are all brought from other places. , if he runs away, he will never enter Xiping County for the rest of his life."

   Zhuzi's family was horrified. They wanted to find Zhuzi and let him run away. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate even considered this.

   (end of this chapter)