Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 115 Placement Charter
"Clang clang-"

Early in the morning, the refugees were awakened by a rush of gongs.

The yamen servant who was beating the gong didn't disturb people's consciousness of waking up at all. Instead, he shouted loudly: "Don't sleep, don't sleep! The government's resettlement regulations have come out! You can stay or go back to your hometown if you want to, keep it Make everyone happy—”

"What? The resettlement regulations have come out? Then I have to go and see!"

Hearing these words, the refugees in the barracks were shocked immediately, got up immediately, put on an outer garment casually, poked their heads out, and walked towards the position where the yamen servant was.

The yamen servants carefully pasted the notice on a wall, then turned around and said to the refugees who surrounded them, "This is a notice from the government. The specific resettlement regulations are written on it. You can take a good look at it."

"Let me see! Let me see!" A teenage boy was so impatient, he jumped up and down like a monkey, and squeezed through the crowd for a long time before he got out.

He bulged his eyes and stared at the notice back and forth, without blinking, and looked at it very seriously.A refugee was about to ask, when he turned his head and looked at the yamen servant next to him with a blank expression on his face: "What is this writing? I can't read!"

Everyone was speechless for a while, and laughed and cursed: "You are illiterate and you have been reading for so long? I thought you understood it!"

Seeing this, an official shook his head and laughed, then stepped forward, cleared his throat, and said to everyone, "Okay, okay, I'll read it to everyone!"

"The first is land distribution. There are two methods, mainly for families with two or more members. The first method is to distribute land according to the head, with two mu of land for each adult and one and a half mu for each woman. One year's land tax is exempted. When a person dies, it will be taken back by the government, and it will only be used for farming and cannot be bought or sold.”

Before he finished speaking, someone asked impatiently, "Is that a dry field or a paddy field? Can you choose by yourself?"

The officials replied: "There are both dry and paddy fields, and they are distributed through lottery. Whatever is caught is what it is, and it cannot be replaced."

As soon as the words fell, everyone was in an uproar:
"Then it's all about luck? I don't know how to grow rice. If I'm unlucky and all I catch are paddy fields, don't I want my family to drink the northwest wind?"

"This is too unfair. Every field is not equally fertile. How can we draw lots together without distinguishing them? You know, sometimes three acres of low-grade fields are not as good as someone else's one-acre high-quality field!"

"What's the difference between exempting the land tax for one year and being unavoidable? The first year is to open up wasteland and cultivate, and the harvest is not high. Even if you want to collect taxes, the government will not be able to collect them!"

"Quiet! Listen to me!" Listening to the rising voice, the official frowned and clapped his hands, "The fields in Hangzhou Mansion are of different sizes and geographical locations. It is impossible for everyone to be exactly the same. Instead of thinking it’s unfair when the government distributes it, it’s better to draw lots from the beginning, everyone depends on luck, and don’t blame anyone!”

"What's more, this is uncultivated wasteland, not very fertile, even if there are good and bad, the difference is not big."

Seeing that everyone was quiet, the officials let out a sigh of relief, and then introduced: "The second method, the distribution method is the same as the first method, two acres for a small woman and one and a half acres for a woman, and it is also done by drawing lots. The difference is that this method can avoid three Annual land tax, and the land belongs to everyone, the government will not take it back!"

"But the government has requirements!" Seeing that the crowd was going to be agitated again, the officials suddenly raised their voices and drew everyone's attention back in time, "That is, these fields can only be used for planting mulberry trees, and they cannot be bought or sold at will, let alone planted. Other crops!"

A refugee stared wide-eyed: "Planting mulberry trees? This stuff can't be eaten or sold, so what's the point of planting it?"

The official said unhurriedly: "Of course it is for raising silkworms. Mulberry leaves cannot be sold, but silk can be sold. Planting mulberry and raising silkworms is already very popular in the south of the Yangtze River. The income of mulberry farmers throughout the year is higher than that of rice farmers."

The refugee looked embarrassed: "Well, I have never heard of growing mulberry, nor have I raised silkworms. What if I die?"

Li Mu replied: "Don't worry, everyone. Regarding planting mulberry and raising silkworms, the government will teach unified skills, and will also provide mulberry seedlings and silkworm eggs. We will not let everyone figure it out by themselves."

"But mulberry seedlings don't grow into mulberry trees overnight. It takes time for silkworms to grow from larvae to spin silk. What do we eat and drink during this period? We can't hug the mulberry tree and gnaw leaves!"

Before the officials could answer, a man next to the refugee answered, "What's there to worry about? Let your mother-in-law go to work in the weaving and dyeing factory to make money! You know, the one in my house only worked for three days. I earned more than 80 Wen as a weaver! It’s much more than I went to work on the construction site, isn’t it enough for the whole family to eat?”

The refugee's eyes lit up: "Really? There are more than 80 Wen in three days?"

It has only been a few days since the government recruited refugee women to work as weavers. Most of them are still in the learning stage of weaving and have not yet started real work.So many people don't have a personal experience of this, and don't know how much profit there is. Hearing what this guy said at this time, they were very pleasantly surprised.

The man raised his chin triumphantly: "Of course it is true! Let me tell you, I would rather raise silkworms than grow crops. After all, once the mulberry seedlings are planted in the soil, I don't need to take care of them. I just need to watch them at home." Silkworms are good, and they don’t need to be exposed to the sun and rain like growing crops, how leisurely it is!”

"Besides, mulberry planting is exempt from land tax for three years, and the land belongs to us. In this way, when I am old, I can pass the land to my son. It can be regarded as leaving a family property for the descendants, isn't it?"

Everyone was a little moved when they heard this: "In this way, it is indeed more cost-effective to grow mulberry and raise silkworms. I don't know how to grow rice. If I catch a paddy field, I still have to learn from scratch. It is better to grow mulberry than to do this. It is better to learn from the government." I figured it out myself."

"If I knew how profitable it is to be a weaver, I should have sent my niece to learn how to weave silk with her mother. I can grow mulberry and silkworms at home by myself!"

"It's a good relationship. At first, I was worried that the child's mother had gone to the factory, and I was busy farming, so I might not be able to take good care of the child. If I could stay at home and raise silkworms, I could take the child with me at any time. It’s killing two birds with one stone!”

The advantages and disadvantages of the two are clear at a glance, and you can know which one is more cost-effective after a little thought, so for a while, everyone is more inclined to the second method of land distribution.

But there are also people who don't buy into both methods: "My family is just me and my father, and no one can work to make money. Whether it is planting crops or mulberry trees, it will take at least several months to get a harvest. Before that We have neither money nor food, shall we starve to death?"

"And me!" A man stood on tiptoe and poked his head out of the crowd with difficulty, "I heard just now that the fields are only allocated to families with two or more people, so we can eat enough for one person and the whole family will not be hungry." What about bachelors? The government doesn’t care about us anymore?”

The official smiled slightly, and deliberately dragged his voice to arouse everyone's curiosity: "So, for your situation, there is a better choice——

(End of this chapter)