Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 603 Purchase on Credit

If you don't want to do it or don't know how to do it, then you can go to the foot of the mountain and dig up twice the amount of mud bricks and return it to the brick kiln.

If all else fails, you can go to a brick kiln to work. The used clay blocks can be converted into money according to the market price. When the wages offset the amount of all the clay blocks, you don't need to continue working.

If the men in the family are in poor health and cannot do the heavy work in the brick kiln, that's fine. You can ask the women in the family to go to the rabbit farm to help shear rabbit hair and spin yarn, and use their wages to offset the amount of mud blocks.

What? You just arrived in Mobei, the house hasn't been built yet, and you're busy at home, so you don't have time to work. That's fine.

In a few months, you can come to my farm to work, and you can use your wages to offset the amount of clay blocks. Of course, if you feel that you have a large family and have not yet been allocated land, you are relatively free.

If you want men, women, old and young to pay off the foreign debt together first, that's fine. I will also buy the firewood you cut according to the market price, one bundle at a time, and weeds are also fine.

Of course, if you need blue bricks, the same procedure applies.

If your home needs wood for beams, doors and windows, you can also find our lumber shop, where similar replacement operations are also available.

As long as you have a need, I have countless packages waiting for you. I won't let you suffer a loss, but don't think of defaulting on your debt and taking advantage of me.

I can give you a buffer period of half a year or even a year, and I won't increase your points or pay you more money. However, the principal you owe me must be returned.

This was also discussed in advance by Hua Lei and Pei Jingyang. Considering the practical difficulties of the relocated people, the brick kiln bought the clay blanks from the people on credit at the market price, solving their urgent needs first.

No matter which package the people choose to repay, the workshops can be operated in tandem. What Mobei lacks most now is manpower.

If the people wanted to buy something later, the business would naturally be brought to their own workshops. For their own workshops, it was a win-win situation, and they got a lot of business back in advance.

At that time, when Pei Jingyang heard Hua Lei's suggestion, he clapped his hands and laughed, praising Hua Lei's idea repeatedly as a great one.

So, we immediately notified several workshops and grocery stores on the street, and everyone worked together. Now, with Hualei wearing official uniforms, we can promote it a little bit.

The common people naturally believed that the words of officials were authoritative. Therefore, in the past few days, the clay bricks piled up in the brick kiln were being consumed as quickly as snow under the scorching sun.

Pei Jingyang was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. He was also handling the affairs of the horse farm in an orderly manner. After a snowstorm brought by a heavy snow, all the fields would get more nourishment than usual.

So, now when the grass on the wasteland turns green, it is like a thick green blanket. Even on the ground where the grass grows very sparsely on normal days, a thin layer of green will appear.

I heard that after the snowstorm, the flowers on the grass will bloom especially brilliantly in the summer. Therefore, things at the horse farm are going smoothly. He was even happier.

After the people's household registration is settled and the homesteads are all distributed, the fields promised to be distributed to the people will also be divided up.

So, after a month of busy work on processing house deeds and land deeds, the issues for the first batch of people who came with their families were finally resolved.

Therefore, the Ministry of Revenue continued to reclaim wasteland. With the foundation laid last year, this year's reclamation was much simpler. The people who reclaimed wasteland last year continued to do so this year. Those who built the prefecture capital last year continued to build the prefecture capital.

For the newly arrived people, let them choose whether to open up wasteland or build a provincial capital. If the number of people is equal, then just do it.

If there is an imbalance in the number of people on both sides, they can adjust to each other. However, when the people are allowed to choose for themselves, the results are surprising.

Minister Zhang was overjoyed, while Minister Li was greatly disappointed, because more than 80% of the people chose to open up wasteland.

When asked the reason, they actually said that they had heard from their fellow villagers and relatives that there was a Mr. Hua in the Ministry of Revenue who was very kind and loving, and who offered them the business of processing loaches for free.

For the same salary, the food while reclaiming wasteland in the Ministry of Revenue is much better than the food while building a provincial capital in the Ministry of Works, so I would definitely choose the Ministry of Revenue.

This... result made Minister Li very dissatisfied! He could not blame the people for their own choices, nor did he have the guts to make the decision on his own and ask the Ministry of Works to pay more money to improve the people's food.

He couldn't pay out of his own pocket to give the people one or two more steamed buns. After all, the number of people was too large, so it might be possible for one or two days, but for years and months, forget it.

However, this problem must be solved. The construction of the state capital has only been going on for half a year, and there will be another two to three years.

If the Ministry of Revenue continues to compete for people like this, the Ministry of Works will not be able to complete the construction of the provincial capital as scheduled.

Minister Li, who had been an official for many years and was fairly upright and honest, also understood that for the people, it was better to ease the trouble than to block it. So he found Hualei again.

To be honest, when he went to the capital, he did not underestimate Hua Lei when she proposed the idea of ​​making a waterwheel.

But at that time, he really treated Hua Lei as a junior. However, since arriving in Mobei, he had more contact with Hua Lei than in Shangjing City, and he understood Hua Lei better.

Now, he really treated Hualei as a colleague in the officialdom. Her way of being an official, with kindness and shrewdness, and sticking to the bottom line in gentleness, made him realize that he also needed to learn more.

When he went to Hua Lei now, he didn't dare to find fault, let alone blame her. Instead, he came to Hua Lei with a sincere heart to solve the problem.

He didn't expect that Hua Lei's small action would cause the butterfly effect now. It can be said that Hua Lei expected Li Shilang to come to her house.

However, the people who built the provincial capital really had nothing to offer in exchange. The last wood-burning stove was given as an extra gift because the Ministry of Works purchased mud from the brick kiln.

Moreover, the imperial court itself was responsible for supplying food, and it was impossible for the common people to bring their own soybeans and mung beans to exchange for the flower buds.

So, the two of them sat at the desk in the government office, staring at each other for a long time. It was unlikely that Hualei would be given to him for free.

However, the Ministry of Revenue had a replacement and processing business, but the Ministry of Industry did not. Even if the people all joined the Ministry of Revenue's land reclamation team, it would not work.

If Hua Lei were asked to stop doing the exchange business in the Ministry of Revenue, Minister Li would also realize that he would not do such a thing that would damage his moral character.

Finally, Minister Li proposed that the lunch time for the people working in the provincial capital built by the Ministry of Works be shortened from three quarters of an hour to two quarters of an hour.