In the early morning, Huairou County Magistrate Guo Pu made a cup of tea and enjoyed this rare moment of leisure alone in the second hall. Since Brother Wu came to the county town, it was like throwing a stone on a lake full of fragile and thin ice in a spring. It broke all the tranquility and brought vitality.

The money and grain paid by Huairou County this autumn is the first of all counties in Peking Prefecture, and it was really praised by the prefect. The prefect has already recommended Guo Pu to the Ministry of Personnel to the Ministry of Personnel. The official history of Wu'an Kingdom was also issued by the Ministry of Personnel to remove the previous dynasty. The view among the Confucians on establishing industry has also changed a lot. At the beginning of the year, some Confucian scholars jointly wrote to the prefect to impeach Huairou County Magistrate: "Editor the righteousness and learning and turmoil, the sacred words of Confucianism, the people's profits were promoted, and the establishment of factories delayed the farming season." This really made Guo

Pu was busy for a while. Finally, after listening to Li Shanping's opinion, he brought a generous gift to the prefect. Then he invited all the scholarly leaders of the prefecture and county to Huairou to stay for a few days, and took them to visit Yixue and factory. He read the "Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" taught by the teachers in the workers' school. He also promised that the factory would take out some silver taels every year to sponsor the scholarly gatherings. Before leaving, he sent a car to deliver Huairou's specialties and carved wood tools from the craftsman's camp to everyone's homes, and the storm gradually subsided.

After Wu Anguo learned about this, he did not angry and rejoiced. He told Li Shanping that all fresh civilian products developed would be installed for free in the government office. Fresh utensils were given to the scholars regularly to show respect. Guo Pu was very disgusted with this, but Wu Anguo advised him: "It might be better, these are all investment in advertising, and sooner or later they will make a lot of money." What is the advertisement, Guo Pu has never heard of, but soon he really saw the power of the advertisement. The prefect's yamen never said that there was a lot of praise for Huairou County, and the scholars also changed their attitude towards Huairou Steel Factory, and occasionally wrote poems to recite this event. Some items became popular and became the target of the competition among the wealthy families. Huairou County was full of wealth. All of this was unexpected by Guo Pu.

Standing in the secular world without following the trend can change people's concepts by taking advantage of the situation. If you are calm when encountering major events, you will not lose your mind and see the fundamentals without forgetting the roots. This is not an ordinary person. He flips through the factory and school management rules written by Wu'anguo, and shows his majesty in plain areas. He is cautious in the rough areas. Even if thousands of people are in harmony and unity as one person, if this method is used to use troops, it will be the enemy of ten thousand people. If Wu's brother was born thirty years ago, this hero in the world... Guo Pu did not dare to think further, and his heart was a ravine, which was his and Li Shanping's unanimous evaluation of Wu'anguo.

Guo Pu is unwilling to disturb Wu'anguo on weekdays, but now the county is so safe that the county is almost closed at night. Only when there is a big event will he send someone to retrieve him from the factory. This time, it is the most troublesome thing about everything.

When he came, he heard a noisy noise mixed with crying. Guo Pu stood up and walked quickly out of the lobby. The empty field outside the lobby was already covered with people, and he walked to the long street. Both men, women, young and old tied their right arms with ropes and tied them together like candied haws. In the middle, there were countless soldiers like wolves and tigers holding whips, scolding and whipping, and sorting out the team. Everyone in the team had a face full of food and dust. I don’t know how much suffering they had to come here. The leader of the army saw the magistrate greeting the county and walked forward in a big way, saying loudly: “Under the command of General Wei Duke Xu Da, Shanxi Right Guard General Xie Yuanliang was ordered by the emperor to release 3,000 households in Hongtong County and Tian Huairou. Ten thousand people left the country, and 3,705 people were lost on the road, and 11,295 people were actually here to deliver.”

His grandmother, even if Guo Pu is well-educated, he couldn't help but curse in his heart. Didn't you give birth to your parents? This people are not goods and actually have to be delivered. After taking the list handed over by Xie Yuanliang, he flipped it over and there was a red-spoke mark on almost every page. This hook means that a life is dead on the road to immigration. Almost every household is no longer complete.

Guo Pu felt sad in his heart, suppressed his grief and anger, and asked Wang Hao to take General Xie and all the soldiers to the inn to entertain him well. The General Xie Banner was one level younger than the hundred households. He heard Guo Pu call him a general, and he couldn't help but be very happy and asked his men to go down, leaving the people standing in a daze in the autumn wind, and the few clothes had already started to tremble.

Guo Pu looked around and saw that more than 10,000 people were coming soon. There was no clothes or food, and there was no tiled roof. The old men in the court pulled them all over, but they didn't know how long it took for the more than a thousand miles of mountain roads to walk on, and how to settle down when they got here. It was a blessing to be hungry and full along the way, and to be able to live here alive. Put away his compassion, Guo Pu ordered the yamen runners to loosen the ties immediately. On the other hand, Wu Anguo had already brought the students of Yixue to clean up the classroom and asked the villagers to group them into the classroom as a group.

There were so many people in several classrooms, so they could barely sit on the ground. They were all better than being frozen in the wind. Li Shanping took the list and took people to go through the classroom one by one, and saw how many people there were. After a long time of chaos, he finally got organized. An old man who was so dirty that he couldn't see the color, as if the material was good, took out a few pages of paper from his bag and handed it to the yamen runners, saying, "Official, can you do it well? Buy some food first. The children haven't stuck to water and rice for two days." The servant saw that it was a treasure banknote, so he handed it to Wu'anguo in a dilemma.

Baochao is a price that the government has forced immigration to buy real estate that the villagers cannot take away. Every villager has some in his hands, but in private transactions, Baochao is priced at a day. Especially in the private areas, no one wants Baochao at all. Seeing that Wu Anguo didn't say anything for a long time, the old man thought he didn't say anything, so he trembled and took out a few more pieces and stuffed them into Wu Anguo's hands, saying, "You are good, it's okay, my old man who is almost buried in the loess is fine, but the children are not good." His words were already choked.

Wu Anguo looked at the confused and almost lifeless eyes of the villagers in this room, and was very reluctant to accept it. He handed the treasure money to Zhang Zhengxin and said, "I opened my cabinet with your master, exchanged it for cash. I will buy rice for everyone to make porridge."

Zhang Zhengxin took the Baochao, moved his mouth, and finally said nothing, turned around and went.

When the others saw that Baochao could be used in front of the official, they also took out Baochao from their clothes, sleeves, and luggage, asking the yamen runners to help buy food. Wu Anguo asked Li Bantu to take it and hand it over to Zhang Zhengxin, and then took the yamen runners to the rice shop to buy rice and cook. Whether there is money or not in each room, the villagers would be fed first. Li Ling agreed and took the people there.

When he returned to the yamen, Guo Pu had been waiting for a long time. How to arrange more than 10,000 people was really a headache. It was already late autumn. Even if there were too many wastelands in Huairou County, it would be next year to distribute land for these people and collect food. How should these people live this winter? Guo Pu thought about it and then had no idea. Seeing that Wu Anguo was back, he hurriedly pulled him down and discussed with him.

Wu'anguo has no regulations at this moment. Winter is coming soon. The river surface is frozen, and the iron plant will rely on livestock to blow the air. The smelting efficiency will be reduced a lot and not too many people will be arranged. Other emerging industries, such as lime, primitive cement (lime, sand, and gypsum are burned in proportion) do not require such people. Moreover, these immigrants also have elderly people, women and children.

"Or what if you want to call the gentry in the county to discuss it?" Li Shanping reminded.

"Okay, let's do it this way, find all the villages in the county, and all the gentry. In three days, we will gather at the yamen to discuss the settlement of immigration." Wu Anguo thought for a while and suggested. "We will pay for the food for the immigrants in these three days. In short, we can't starve to death before our eyes."

"I'll give it a share too," Captain Wang came to the front and said seriously. He was not a stingy person at first, but he has distributed a lot of dividends with Wu'anguo in the past six months. When encountering something, it is natural to think that he generously donated money.

"I'll go out to pick up two people," said Li Bantou.

"I give ten taels", "I give fifteen taels", "I give five taels", and all the yamen runners were packing their bags.

Guo Pu was a little moved. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, the officials in the government donated money to the people. They stood up, bowed to the brothers in a circle, and choked and said, "Guo represents the people, thank you everyone."

Three days later, the gentry and the clerk gathered together, and everyone sued for guilt and sat down. Guo Pu told everyone about the situation and asked everyone to come up with advice. For a moment, the room was silent.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Dezhong, the inside of the big willow tree, stood up and bowed and said, "Ten miles away from our big willow tree, there was a village. When the Mongolians 'reduced' the village, the village was not alert and they were killed. It is still empty. The villagers originally wanted to open up the land, but they thought it was gloomy and no one dared to go there. The land was quite fat, enough for more than twenty households to plant. Although the houses were broken, they could live in repairs. The master could send a few households. Before coming this winter, the young man in our village helped them set up a house. Don't worry, he couldn't watch them starve to death."

Some people took the lead, and the atmosphere gradually became lively. Some villages had wasteland, so it was not difficult to accept some foreigners. Other villages were similar to big willow trees, which were the Mongols who were afraid that there were too many Han people and were slaughtered. This time, they could barely arrange for immigration to go there. Although it was a bit gloomy, it was better than having no place to settle down. More places were originally a homeless land, but they could be marked as a village and landed in the village next to them for a while. In a blink of an eye, more than a thousand households were arranged.

With less than a thousand households left, Wu'anguo suggested that it would be better for everyone to invest, open a few more industries, and hire these people to work. The gentry agreed, but Wu'anguo had to make the decision on what to do. Seeing that everyone had no objection, Wu'anguo suggested that it would be better to expand the original mine while the weather was not completely cold. Mining was the most manpower needed. Moreover, if the iron plant expanded its scale next year, the current mineral output would definitely not be enough.

Seeing that there is money to make money, everyone's enthusiasm immediately increased and they demanded investment and investing. Wu Anguo waved his hand and told everyone not to hurry. He said loudly: "There are not only iron ore on the mountains around Huairou. As far as I know, there should be other minerals here. If there are too many mines in the future, there will definitely be a shortage of manpower. I don't think it's better for everyone to spend more money to support immigrants after this year, and we will not delay making money next year because of lack of manpower."

All the gentry responded, and said, "It depends on the county magistrate and Lord Dianshi." The one said, "Master Wu came up with a solution, let's do it. Follow Master Wu, are you still afraid of not having money to make money!"

At present, Wu'an Kingdom set rules, and the gentry invested the capital and exchanged all the treasure money in the hands of the immigrants for equal amount. The treasure money was collected by Li Shanping, and the entitlement was established, which was counted as the stock purchase certificate for everyone. Every two silver-equivalent treasure money was counted as one share. If you want to invest more, you can use cash to invest. Each gentry can only purchase up to 3,000 shares, and Huairou Hanyuan Trading Company was established.

The stock money is recorded in the account, and a part of the rice is allocated to immigrants. Those who borrow rice must use labor to provide relief and use their work to pay the rice money from the commercial bank. Those who cannot do their hard work will be accounted for by the county and returned by the county taxes next year. Those who are willing to work farming will lend rice and grain for one year and will be returned next autumn. It is stipulated that the county must purchase the treasure bank purchased by the commercial bank in full in cash within three years. The various taxes of the commercial bank can be offset by the treasure bank before the treasure bank is purchased.

The gentry had been calculating for a long time, but when they saw that they had no losses, they agreed and went home to get the money without mentioning it. Wu'anguo also settled in the villages and did not bully the foreigners. Everyone was Chinese. The genius responded.

Those immigrants were nervous and almost didn't believe their ears when they heard that the treasure money could be exchanged for equivalent cash. No one expected that the broken paper given by the government would be really useful, and they were all overjoyed. Some families were large families in Shanxi. Although the immigrants were bought by the government at the time, this time they saved a small part of their property, so that the whole family would not live on the streets and cried. Those who had no money to live could borrow rice first and then sell their labor to return it, and were also very willing. Those who were willing to go to the countryside to farm and live in rural areas. The government lent a year of rice and grain, and established a document to collect it next autumn.

Five days later, everything was arranged. Those who were willing to farm borrowed rice and grain, received land deeds, and scattered to the countryside. Those who did not make arrangements were arranged by Wu'anguo to take the lead and go to various mines to expand construction according to Wu'anguo's design. The mine caves reinforced by cement and steel bars were much safer than before, and several times larger, and the risk of mining was relatively smaller. The miners' families rented farmhouses in the suburbs, and the business bank paid the rent. At that time, the salary was

Deduct it from the inside. Some families with more money in their hands simply bought houses and land in the countryside of Huairou. With the land allocated by the government, as long as they manage it carefully, they will definitely be able to restore their scale in their hometown in a few years. There are only a hundred scholars and craftsmen left. Wu Anguo first let them scatter to the homes of various gentry to do chores, and when they have a place to go, they will arrange them together. The immigrants knew in their hearts that they had met good officials, and some did not forget to bow to the county government before leaving, thanking them for their gratitude.

"It's not so simple. Why did we buy so many treasure money and distribute so much food, but everyone seems to have made money, which is really strange." Guo Pu and Li Shanping discussed these issues while there were few people. Wu Anguo was happy when he heard it, 'How can you learn this "karate" in the 21st century without losing a few times? Many foreign-funded enterprises played this trick back then, and you haven't even seen foreigners, of course they don't understand. After all, you are 700 years away from history!'. He turned to Guo Pu and said, "These treasure money will be kept for the future use of tax donations in the county. Didn't the court not recognize the regulations? We will circulate it back to see how the big bosses in the court can slap themselves."

In the metallurgical design institute where Wu'anguo is located, the distribution of Huairou minerals is clearly drawn. When Wu'anguo was in the unit, he was invited by some township enterprises and really put in a lot of effort to study the prospects of mining and utilization of these ores, otherwise the iron plant would not have been opened so easily. In his memory, the iron ore around Huairou is a sedimentary metamorphic type, with a low grade, but good smelting properties. Nonferrous metals are also distributed around Huairou, and metallurgical auxiliary raw materials such as dolomite, flux limestone, silica, refractory clay, iron alum, sand for castings are everywhere. Later, the country wanted to protect Beijing's water source and stopped these enterprises. Wu'anguo still vaguely remembers the rough location of the mine pit. "This time, in order to make up for the deficit, we must try our best to organize people to explore them. Can we protect the environment? We can only put them in the future." Wu'anguo was doing the final work of resettlement and planning in his mind.

"Master, what should we do if these little guys do?" Zhang Zhengxin, who suddenly broke in, interrupted his thoughts. Behind him, there were several children aged five, six to teenagers.

"Where are their families?" Wu Anguo asked in confusion.

"Die on the road," Zhang Zhengxin replied. On the road to immigration, many parents leave their last chance of survival to their children, and they fall down for themselves. What remains unchanged for thousands of years is the love of their parents.

Wu'anguo sighed. Is this the big immigrant recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty? Fortunately, those historians still record that the government sent fertile land and plowing oxen to the people. Where can there be so many plowing oxen in the government? Wu'anguo kept smiling bitterly. The family of laughing at the Shi family has been spreading rumors for so many years. They laughed at the indulgence and sorrow of the people in this feudal society. In such a country, they loved him very much. They had a deep understanding of why the people didn't care which tribe member was the emperor.

I saw a slightly older child standing in front looking at him with his big black eyes, walked over gently, and touched the child's head. "Little guy, what's your name?"

"I'm not a little guy, I can take care of my sister." The child protested, "My name is Jiang Ye, and my father said I want to wipe out the evil in the world like Gan Jiang Moye's sword." The child said seriously.

"Do you know where you came from with ambition?" Seeing the child's cuteness, Wu Anguo couldn't help but be interested in him.

"I came down from the big locust tree." The child handed a black branch to Wu'anguo, as if proving something. It was a locust tree branch that had been dry for a long time. "The official told my father that those who didn't want to move to stand under the locust tree, so his father took his mother, me, and his sister. The master was a bad guy. He lied to others and brought us many uncles with knives to surround us, and then went to exchange paper for valuable things from house to house. My father argued with them, and was beaten, and my mother was beaten. When he left, everyone broke the forks of the locust tree. Later, my father fell asleep, and my mother later accompanied me and asked me to take care of my sister. My mother said that when I grew up, I could go home by following the locust tree on the road."

Poor child, Wu Anguo could no longer bear it, and he carried the child into his arms, and tears rolled down his tiger's eyes.

"I have adopted these children and settled in Yixue, and you will take care of them in the future." Wu Anguo explained to Zhang Zhengxin, who was wiping tears beside him. "Buy a few clothes for them first, take a shower, and in the afternoon, you can see if you can hire a kind woman to take care of you, and ask Shisanlang to arrange their study according to your personal circumstances."

Wu Anguo turned his head and wiped away his tears, saying to Li Shanping: "We have to find a few helpers. There are more and more transactions. Every place has to put a suitable candidate. We cannot do everything ourselves. You disciples, you have to let them come out to exercise early. I will look for candidates who are suitable for management among the workers. Let's hurry up, and one day everyone in the world will have food to eat, money to make money, and not be bullied."

"Let everyone have food to eat, make money, and not be bullied." Guo Pu looked at Wu'anguo with red eyes. Except this time, the Wu brothers who had never cared about fame and fortune before made so much money. No matter how they looked, they were not like people who were greedy for money. At this moment, he finally understood Wu'anguo's ambitions. "If you are poor, you will be safe; if you are prosperous, you will be able to help the world." The Wu brothers' realm is much higher than this.
Chapter completed!