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The next day, Cheng Guangyuan sent someone to invite Shen Jia to the Cangxian County Government Office, and people from Heshui Village arrived.

After hearing this, Shen Jia immediately went back and changed into men's clothes, and then rode to Cangxian County Government Office with Xiao Yichen.

Chief Zeng was restless in the county government office and frequently looked towards the county government gate. When he saw the two men dismounting from their horses, he trotted forward and saluted: "Hello, gentlemen!"

Seeing the uneasy look on his face, Shen Jia smiled and said, "Clan Chief Zeng, there is no need to be nervous. If you have anything to say, you can just say it."

Patriarch Zeng rubbed the back of his head and said with a naive smile: "That's it. We in the village unanimously decided that the princess will build the tea garden, and we villagers will work in it and get paid."

"Okay, Cheng Guangyuan, you can help me write a few agreements. Chief Zeng will take the agreements back and give the villagers' fingerprints."

"Okay! I'll write it right away."

"Clan Chief Zeng, from now on I will hand over the tea garden to you and another person to jointly manage it. I hope you won't let me down."

"Master, please rest assured, I will manage it well and will never let you down."

"So good!"

Cheng Guangyuan quickly wrote the agreement in triplicate. Over the years, Patriarch Zeng occasionally came to the county government to do business, so he got to know some words. He knew most of the words in it. After reading it carefully, he put his fingerprints on it. , Cheng Guangyuan and Shen Jia both signed their names.

After the villagers took their fingerprints, Cheng Guangyuan placed a copy in the county government file, and that was it.

Cheng Guangyuan warned: "Clan Chief Zeng, when you go back, you must supervise the villagers' road construction and write down how much work each person has done. Work for four hours a day and twenty coins a day. Someone from the Yamen will come to pay you every five days." Wages. This is the road you have to take. Once it is repaired, it will be convenient for you."

"Sir, please rest assured. After the people in our village heard that the young master said that the county wanted to ask them to build the road, they started construction at around midnight this morning." After Patriarch Zeng finished speaking, he bowed and left.

The steps were fast, not like an elderly man at all. He wanted to return to the village quickly to tell the villagers the good news.

They all thought that the princess would give them ten cents a day at most, but they didn't expect twenty cents a day. Twenty cents! If they can buy six kilograms of rice, they will all have a good year this year.

In the spring of next year, the princess will give them high-yield grain seeds to plant, and then they will start growing tea. In March, they can also go to Laocha Mountain to pick tea. The young master said that before the Qingming Festival, all the tender tea from the tea trees would be picked back, fried and sold in the capital. The tea there would be 50% red!

In less than two years, their Heshui Village will become the richest village in Cang County. I am so excited! so excited!

On the other side, Shen Jia, Xiao Yichen and Cheng Guangyuan chatted for a while before going back.

In the following days, villages began to build roads.

Beili Village is not far from the county seat. Adults from other families in the village, both men and women, carried hoes and started building roads. The Shen family also sent four servants to join them. It only took us four days to build a smooth road.

After the people from the county government came and paid their wages, they encouraged them to go to other villages to help build roads. Except for those with children at home who were unable to leave early and come home late, everyone else readily agreed.

It took twenty days to complete all the roads in the three counties. Shen Jia was secretly stunned at the speed. You must know that in building roads in this era, there were no excavators or forklifts. It was all about villagers digging out the roads bit by bit with hoes.

The roads in the three counties are basically mountain roads. The farthest ones are hundreds of miles long, and some have to climb several mountains.

Later, when I asked about it, I found out that most of the villagers started building roads at noon. At noon, they found a place to sit and drink some rice porridge and continued building roads. They didn't go home until mid-afternoon. In other words, they worked for six full hours. hour.

Some of those who went to remote villages to help build roads lived in nearby villages, while others lit torches and set off on their way in the middle of the year. After Shen Jia and Xiao Yichen knew these things, they were so moved that their eyes turned red.

Especially Xiao Yichen, he felt the deepest in his heart. Most of the people were simple and kind-hearted, and they didn't care who became the emperor. They only cared about who could keep them fed, clothed and lived a good life.

Among the three counties, Yi County, the most populous, has less than 20,000 people, and Cang County and Bai County only have about 15,000 people.

However, at least 5,000 people participated in road construction in each county, which meant that in most families, except for the elderly and young children who were too old to move, everyone else came.

The two masters, who were not short of money, each took out three thousand taels of silver notes to reward the villagers in three counties for building roads. After receiving the money, the villagers knelt down and kowtowed to the north, thanking the emperor for giving the three counties to the princess as fiefs. , and then muttered something like hoping that the Bodhisattva would bless the princess and be safe.

There were some lazy guys who didn't go to build the road. When they saw that they had taken so much money and received bonuses after they came back, they even regretted it in their intestines.

The common people in the three counties had a vague consensus in their hearts, that is, following the princess, as long as you are honest and responsible, you will not have to worry about having a good life.

The next step was to build a school. Villagers in each village responded positively and everyone invested in building a school.

The winery has been built, and the next step is to recruit workers.

This is the first batch of workers in the winery. Those who are capable can be sent to other places to work as managers. Shen Jia is particularly cautious.

She first posted recruitment notices in three county government offices, requiring a total of 30 men and women aged 16 to 40 who were healthy, clean, literate, honest and hard-working.

There was an uproar in the three counties. Everyone rushed to tell each other and inquired about each other. When they learned that they had one tael of silver a month, many people were excited and jealous. They were jealous, but they couldn't do anything if they didn't meet the conditions.

Then they remembered that the county magistrate had said that in the spring of next year, the county would open a university hall. Boys and girls aged seven to fifteen years old could go to the school to study for free for a year, and they would also have a free meal at noon! Such a great opportunity, this book must be read! If the princess opens a factory or something else in the future, their children will also be eligible to participate.

Shen Jia didn't know that her announcement had opened up the situation for the people in the three counties.

She is currently interviewing all the applicants at the gate of the winery.

Next to him sat Xiao Yichen, Shen Zhuoyun, and Shen Hao, and behind him stood Zhu Minghua, Lan Ning, Lan Yue, Bai Cui, and Liang Jin.

After Shen Jia and the others enter Beijing, Zhu Minghua will be the chief steward of Yixian County, and all the industries in the three counties will be under his control. Lan Yue and Bai Cui will be the stewards of the winery, and Lan Ning and Liang Jin will be the stewards of the Beijing Winery in the future.

There were not many people applying for the job, less than a hundred people in total.

Everyone who comes to apply for a job must first go to Shen Jia to have their pulse checked, and then look at their fingernails after the pulse is normal, then go to Shen Zhuoyun to recite a paragraph, Shen Hao to write a dozen big characters, and finally go to Xiao Yichen to answer questions, all Only after passing the test will you be officially hired.

It took a whole morning to barely recruit thirty people, four of whom were their acquaintances.

One was Lu Xiaoju. She was moved after seeing the notice. Her son had a talent for reading, so she decided to let him go to school. After discussing it with her seventh uncle and the others, she came to apply for the job today.

There is another person who is also from Beili Village, and the other two are from Yaozhuang and Liangzhuang. (End of chapter)