Five-year-old cute baby: traveled back to ancient times and became a grandmother

Chapter 454: It feels so good to be a capitalist

The other villagers who were traveling with him laughed and said, "Captain, what are you afraid of? We still have the ransom. Besides, even if he is a stingy person, we can still get some money."

"That's right. We have claws of steel and are the best at plucking feathers from stingy people!"

"Hahaha, that's right. Once we've captured almost all of them, we should send out the letters." Bai Shanquan: "Twenty thousand people, the ransom is a lot anyway."

Bai Shitou and Bai Xiaoda seemed to be thinking about something.

If Bai Tao was here at this moment, she would definitely hold her forehead in her hand in silence. It seemed like she had led the villagers astray without realizing it.

Because false information was constantly released, the Da Wanguo did not know that the first group of people had fallen into the hands of Taohua Village and were doing hard labor.

Therefore, after receiving the "accurate" news from the first three or four groups of people, the generals of the Great International Kingdom were overjoyed.

"Hahaha, Taohua Village has not discovered our plan. Now we already have seven or eight thousand people in Taohua Village's territory."

"As long as we can get two or three more groups of people in, we will have a huge advantage. Haha, Taohua Village and Baiyu Army are no more than that!"

"I told you, the White Feather Army is invincible, that's just a boast."

"That's right. The few times they won, it was definitely because their opponents were useless. If the White Feather Army had encountered the army of our Great Wan Kingdom, how could they have the current reputation?"

"That's right. This time, let's let the world see who is the truly invincible and unstoppable cavalry."

"It is said that the Baijiabao Caravan is as rich as a country. After we conquer Taohua Village and have the Baijiabao Caravan, our Great Wan Kingdom's national strength and financial resources will be further enhanced."

The Da Wan Kingdom was very happy, and the villagers who were wearing armor and going into battle were very busy.

Everyone carried a communication device with them. After catching someone, they would take out their communicators when they were not busy and check the group chat. They would see messages urging people from all over.

"I'm short of people here. The project is tight on time and the workload is heavy. Can you guys please ask for fewer people this time and let me go first?"

"I'm still short of about 300 people. Thank you all in advance."

"Look at me, big guys. The projects in You County are also tight. Now is the time to reclaim wasteland in preparation for next year's agricultural planting. It's not easy to recruit people to work on the construction site. We are really short of people."

"Everyone, stop arguing. I'll pay you 500 taels. Give me 500 men first, okay? Ancheng is in need of a lot of people."

"What are you thinking? I'll pay eight hundred taels for five hundred men."

"No, you are driving up prices."

"Then you retract your previous statement."

Bai Shanquan and others looked at the messages in the group and shook their heads helplessly.

After thinking for a while, Bai Shanquan moved his fingers and replied: "Everyone, stop arguing. We are also working hard."

"There are only so many people, we can't alert the enemy..."

Two thousand people may seem like a lot, but after being divided up, one construction site can only get two or three hundred people at most.

We need to build roads and canals, as well as the mines... These are actually still good. Once the hydroelectric power stations and wind power stations are built next year, even more people will be needed.

"Don't worry, I won't blame you if you stay here for ten days or half a month."

As soon as he said this, he was attacked by many people on the construction site.

"You are talking without any pain in your waist. Come on, let's switch and see if you can stop being anxious."

"That's right. We signed a military order in front of my aunt."

"These are all necessary engineering projects, the foundation of economic development. Of course, it is better to finish them sooner rather than later." The aunt didn't urge them, but who doesn't want to finish the work early?

"That's right. If I had known earlier, I would have applied for armor and went into battle."

"Don't mention it. I was unlucky this time and didn't get the prize. Otherwise, I would definitely be the one escorting the prisoners to you."

"I'm on a mission outside and can't participate in this operation. What a pity."

Although anyone from Taohua Village can be a member of the Baiyu Army, there are so many jobs to do that they can only be decided by drawing lots. Only those who are not busy with important work can draw lots.

Seeing that the topic was getting more and more off-topic, Bai Dashan also popped up in the group.

“There are still a few people in our village.”

Bai Chunhua: "There is no other way. Now, all the people, young and old, only have about 300 people."

Quite a few babies were born this year, many of them twins, which was not the case before.

However, the newborn baby can't help much except sleeping and drinking milk.

Auntie Liu is old and types slowly. Every time she is halfway through typing, the topic has already changed. She is so angry that she can only send a voice message: "It's okay. The people in our village are more valuable in terms of quality than quantity."

"Don't be too anxious, everyone. I've said before that construction is the way to long-term development, so we should do it step by step."

In a flash, a voice message appeared in the horizontal screen of everyone's communicator, but it was quickly withdrawn in seconds.

The messages that were originally scrolling suddenly stopped. No one spoke. Everyone was waiting, afraid that if they spoke, Bai Tao's message would be pushed to the front.

After a few minutes, Bai Dashan sent a message: "Auntie, do you have any instructions?"

The aunt withdrew the message so quickly that he didn't even have time to click it.

As soon as he sent the message, the message pinned by the villagers appeared again.

Bai Tao Nai's whirring voice rang out in the group: "No, I just pressed it accidentally."

"What are you guys talking about? There are already over 2,000 messages."

Bai Dashan immediately reported: "Auntie, everyone is discussing that the Great Wan Kingdom has few soldiers and horses, and there are not enough to go around at each construction site."

At the beginning, the communicator could only communicate in a simple way, without voice or video functions.

But there are always some jobs that require going out or business trips for two or three months, and the villagers are particularly attached to Bai Tao.

Every time he was going to do something with great enthusiasm, he would turn around and send all kinds of hesitant telegrams.

Bai Tao took a look and thought, forget it, just upgrade the communicator to make it easier for everyone to communicate at work and to talk to family about anything. Besides, there is no lag in the transmission of messages, which is pretty good.

However, this upgrade cost Mall A 860,000 coins in upgrade fees, which made Bai Tao very sad.

The mall thought to itself, who makes the technology fee so expensive? I learned this from you. It feels really good to be a capitalist.

Since everyone was talking, Bai Tao started chatting with everyone in the group: "Oh, there are indeed fewer people."

Twenty thousand people may seem like a lot, but if they are distributed everywhere, it would be a drop in the bucket.

"Dashan, try recruiting people at the nearby provincial government. Try to offer higher salaries, including food and accommodation."

Bai Dashan typed very quickly: "Auntie, we are actually recruiting people, and more than 3,000 people have come here one after another."

In ancient times, productivity was low and physical fitness was poor. Unless there was a major disaster, people would stay in one place and stay motionless until they died.