Chapter 166 Admission without examination Guozijian is the so-called family has a woman and a hundred families are asking for it, no, a family has a hundred families asking for food.Although it is only the second year of Chongzhen, Henan and Hebei can barely contribute to the harvest of six or seven percent, and Shaanxi and Gansu do not have such good luck, especially Yan'an Mansion in Shaanxi."
Yan'an Mansion, the township of Chenxiang, there was no rain all year last year, the grass and trees were scorched, and the people competed to pick the grass in the mountains for food.When the grass is exhausted, the bark is stripped and eaten.When the bark is exhausted, it digs the stones in the mountains and eats, the stone is cold and fishy, and the food is full, and the abdomen is distended and falls to death in a few days.Hungry people gather together to be "thieves", and instead of waiting to starve to death, it is better to die for "thieves".He also burned human bones for wages, and boiled human flesh for food, and those who ate men died in a few days with red and swollen faces, and heat and dryness.So, the death pillow, the stench is stinking, and several pits are dug outside the city of Ansai County, each pit can accommodate hundreds of people, and it is not as good as the people who are buried, and I don't know how many more?
If this is true in small counties, it can be known in large counties, and if it is like this in one place, it can be known elsewhere.The people were safe and untouched, and became "thieves".To the north of Qingyang and Yan'an, the famine was even worse. ”From "Preparation for Chen's Great Hunger".Grain has become a scarce resource, not to mention that there is no canal in the northwest, and Huguang grain cannot be transported to the northwest even if it wants to.There are more and more merchants in Fumin Street, most of whom want to purchase Quanxu's grain.The commercial street of Fu Man Street continues to expand, and the shops that were originally cheap and supplied the consumption of the poor are slowly transforming into a mid-to-high-end direction.What makes Quan Xu speechless the most is that Fumin Street actually opened a green building with thirty or forty Yangzhou thin horses, the consumption here is certainly not low, ordinary workers must not be able to afford it, and the customers they face are mainly businessmen who come to Quanjiazhuang Town to purchase.This Huizhou businessman, who has rented Quanxu's shop for 300 years, actually runs the Four Treasures of the Study, selling pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., and the students of Jinti Academy are their target group.Although a year ago, the victims and displaced people who arrived here had nothing to lose, except for a life, and even pants, however, after a year of development, they relied on their own hands to work on Quan Xu's side, and more or less accumulated some family wealth.In particular, people like family soldiers, stewards, and craftsmen are already considered wealthy, and they are willing to pay for their children by spending a few dollars of silver to buy a brush or a few knives of fine rice paper.In addition to Quanxu's engineering team, many local construction teams from the Daimyo Mansion have recently emerged, and their construction is mainly for private houses.Shops-based.At this time, the town of Quanjiazhuang is like a blooming flower, expanding outward every moment.Quan Xu was also annoyed by the grain merchants who came to visit every day, however, no matter how many merchants visited Quan Xu, Quan Xu did not let go.Corn is sold in the form of seeds, potatoes and sweet potatoes are sold in large quantities, and the price is not too expensive, seven dollars a stone, but the problem is that the audience for this kind of grain is really not large.The merchants were watching.The first group of Liaodong immigrants were given new clothes, new jobs and, of course, housing.Their houses could not be unified, and some of them were assigned brick houses, which belonged to the treatment of the participating family soldiers.Some were assigned to the prefabricated house, which is the treatment of craftsmen, and some were assigned to the mud house, which is the treatment of ordinary farmers.Treat it differently, this is mainly because Quan Xu wants to attract the fierce people of Liaodong to become family soldiers.With the proper resettlement of the people of Liaodong, there is no way to stabilize the hearts of the people.Quan Xu held a meeting of community directors again, and he said straight to the point: "Do you still remember what it was like when we first came here?"
”Tang Qiu was the first to come, and he was a little depressed: "I remember, we are even worse than Huazi, those children with yellow faces and thin muscles and sluggish expressions, those unkempt and tattered mothers-in-law, and those men who are still beating singles in their forties and fifties......"
"I can't forget it in my life, looking at them like this, I feel really uncomfortable."
Now they can eat and put on new clothes!
”Quan Xu smiled and said: "Have a full meal, have a decent house to live in, just like that, everyone feels very happy and satisfied, our crops are harvested, and the winter wheat will take a long time, while you are free now, you all investigate your respective communities, and match them with young men and women in the community, so that they can form new families." ”Tang Qiu smiled bitterly: "If there are conditions, they will definitely be willing to start a family, but now everyone is poor, although it is said that they will not be unable to eat, but they have no savings, and they can't get a dowry!"
”"I'll figure it out!"
Quan Xu said with a smile: "If you continue to promote it to the big guys, as long as you sign up for a group wedding, each family will be rewarded with a house, a set of pots, bowls, scoops, basins, and a brand new bedding!"
”There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart.Only by starting a family can people's minds settle down, and when harvesting corn, Quan Xu has found that there are traces of field battles in many corn fields.If this continues, there will definitely be problems in the long run.People are not animals, they also have seven emotions and six desires, and the problem of getting married cannot be ignored.Anyway, the prefabricated house is very cheap, although it is said that it is hotter in summer, but because it is now the period of Xiaoice, the heat in summer is still bearable.In later generations, Quan Xu purchased a large number of prefabricated houses at the price of almost scrap, which was originally prepared for immigrants from Liaodong, and now it is found that almost ninety percent of these Liaodong people come over are men or teenagers, and women account for only a small part.Quan Xu also has no solution to this problem.Patriarchal.This concept is not something that can be reversed in a day or two, once the choice is needed, the chance to live is given to the man.The first batch of 457 immigrants from Liaodong came over, of whom only 43 were women, including more than a dozen women in their forties and fifties.In order to better integrate everyone, this is the only way to go.After all, xenophobia is not a phenomenon of later generations, but a historical tradition.The locals of the Daimyo Mansion discriminated against the Hebei people outside the Daimyo Mansion, and the Hebei people discriminated against the Henan people, and the problem now was that almost all of them were hostile to the people of Liaodong.If this contradiction is not resolved, there will be big problems.Hearing Quanxu's reward, the community directors were overjoyed."
I'm going to have a gathering wedding!""
Group wedding?""
Yes, let's go and investigate first, encourage everyone to sign up, I will not only reward them with the house, reward them with furniture and bedding, but also take care of all the expenses of the banquet."
Quan Xu originally planned to give all the craftsmen and farmers a holiday, after all, there were no weekends and no rest days at the end of the Ming Dynasty.The employees who have been working with Quanxu for a long time have been working for nearly a year, and they have not had a day off, not to mention, now that they have a bumper harvest and have obtained a large amount of food.Naturally, everyone needs to have fun, only in this way can we create a harmonious atmosphere and create corporate cohesion and a sense of belonging.At the intention of the big boss to have an annual meeting in advance, he also wanted to enjoy the grand scene of tens of thousands of employees and tens of thousands of people gathering to celebrate.As the saying goes, the leader moves his mouth, and the subordinates break their legs.With Quan Xu's few words, stewards and housekeepers at all levels began to get busy, first of all, the blacksmith workshop, clanging iron, working hard to build pots, kitchen knives, and daily necessities.Carpenter's workshops are also working overtime to process furniture.Fortunately, Quan Xu brought them a machine saw from later generations, which made their work a lot easier and their efficiency improved a lot.Many of the artisans are also bachelors, and of course, not only are they bachelors, but also their children need to start a family.Qi Hu immediately found Qi Yuanbi who was located in the Jiading Soldier Training Base: "Young Master, good news!"
”"What?""
Master Quan said, to hold a wedding for the newlyweds, not only to send a house, but also furniture, bedding, this is a very good opportunity......"
Qi Yuanbi sneered: "This matter has nothing to do with me, I have already been assigned a house, the standard of our house division has been stipulated, in principle, each person has a house, unless my son grows up in the future, he can participate in the house division as a Chengding!"
”"You get the idea!"
Qi Hu painstakingly persuaded: "Young master, you have to get married early!"
”"I want to, too, but there's no suitable one!"
Qi Yuanbi smiled bitterly: "Although our Qi family is in decline, it's not like anyone can enter if they want to, right?"
”"This ......"
Qi Hu was really speechless.Although Qi Yuanbi was not enthusiastic, others took a fancy to Quan Xu's reward, and they enthusiastically signed up for this group wedding.After half a month of preparation, Quanxu carved out 150 acres of land on the vacant land north of Fumin Commercial Street and built more than 500 sets of new prefabricated houses.Different from the prefabricated houses in the Quanxu compound, this prefabricated house adopts the layout of a western courtyard, sitting north and facing south, or sitting south and facing north to form a long street in the east-west direction.This street is not dominated by shops, but is specially designed for newlyweds to live, in fact, this is also to dilute the Liaodong group.There were 327 pairs of villagers, families and craftsmen who signed up for the group wedding, and just when Quan Xu was nervous about arranging the group wedding, Jiexiu Cao Ning reported to Quan Xu that they were willing to buy a thousand stone of corn at a price of thirty taels of silver per stone.Quan Xu agreed to the deal, and at the same time, the other 9,000 stone corn that was ready to be pre-sold was quickly divided up by other merchants.In just half a month, Quan Xu received 300,000 taels of silver.The silver was thrown back to future generations and minted into silver coins, and his mood was happy.However, the good mood did not last long, and Yuan Shiqing came to Quan Xu with a strange middle-aged man."
Master Quan, this is from the capital!""
You are!""
Hello Quan Gongzi, contemptible Sun Xiangrong, on the order of my master, I came to deliver a letter to Quan Gongzi!""
Faith!"
Sun Xiangrong took out a letter from his bosom and opened it to see that it turned out that Yuan Keli had used his connections to let him go to the capital to study in Guozijian a few years ago.Quan Xu is not a student, he is not a showman, he still wonders how he can directly enter the Guozijian?
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