There were two women sitting down the old-fashioned streets, chatting and seeing Qin Hu coming, they stopped talking and looked up and smiled at her.

Qin Hu then said to them, "Did you men be in the house? Notify them to go to the village for a meeting."

"I know, I'm having a meeting again. Do you have to talk about road construction again?" A woman spoke, but her work in her hands was still skillfully weaving straw sandals.

Qin Hu nodded. Everyone seemed to be busy and rarely saw idle people. But unlike the busyness in the past, everyone used to be unemployed all day, but they felt lifeless, but now everyone is busy with joy.

In the past, I was busy for the head landlords, but now I am busy for myself.

The township has built supply and marketing cooperatives, grain stations, postal offices, and agricultural technology institutes, and also established credit cooperatives to issue interest-free loans to the poor people in the villages in the township.

The cadres in the village also went to the villages and set up squatting to help the people get rid of poverty. They brought potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other drought-resistant and high-yield crops, taught everyone how to plant these new functions, and helped everyone contact advanced plows and rakes.

They even bought piglets, lambs, chicks and ducklings for them, so that the people could raise family farming. Many villages also opened small workshops run by villages, weaving straw mats, straw sand, making stones, picking sand, and setting up mules to run and transport.

There are also various fruit trees planted.

Now no one has time to go to the alleys to chat in broad daylight. The children who used to play at the entrance of the village were not seen, and they were sent to the village elementary school to study. The sound of reading at the entrance of the village is always the sound that villagers like to hear the most. Children study at school without paying a penny at home, tuition fees, teachers' thank-you gifts, and even the children's textbooks and paper fees are free of charge. The school even hired someone to cook for the children. The children don't have to go home for lunch every day, and they eat for free at school, and they eat well.

Turn around the alley and head north.

He walked to the street. Under a big tree in front, there were piles of goods there, and seven or eight men were surrounding them.

They are horse-drivers from the village horse gang.

The village horse gang is jointly owned by the village, and everyone invested together. Then the cadres stationed in the village helped them get a low-interest loan from the township credit union. They bought forty mules through the village, and the horse team was built.

Horse Gangs are a unique mode of transportation on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The Yunnan-Guizhou area lacks good roads, and the access between many places is quite difficult. Except for some major roads, which can pass through vehicles and horses, other places are mainly transported by horses and mules.

Many places have high mountains and dense forests, hot climate, with cliffs and deep streams on the road, hungry tigers and beasts in the mountains, and poisonous snakes and scorpions in the river.

The road is inconvenient and transportation is difficult. Whether it is transporting things out or transporting them in, nine out of ten are to rely on mules and horses. The unique terrain makes it difficult to transport the rivers here by using water.

Now the imperial court has changed its territory in the southwest and returned to the current situation. The poor have turned over and become the leader, and the Yunnan-Guizhou area is changing with each passing day. The imperial court has also begun to build roads, but for the time being, it can only build the main transportation roads.

The transportation demand has increased significantly, which has also caused the horse gang team to expand rapidly. This is also the result of the guidance of counties and townships in various places in accordance with the instructions of the court.

If you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Before the road is opened, you can only rely on horse gangs.

There were ten horse-drivers in the village horse gang. They raised forty mules and only went to various townships in the county to do some short-distance transportation. Their main task was to transport grain for grain stations to the county, and then transport salt and other merchants from the county to the township.

The horse racing gang is a very hard job, and they eat and live on the road. They eat and eat and rain. However, the horse racing team is well-owned. The horse racing team is jointly owned by the village, and all the villagers hold shares and pay dividends. The horse racing people are all from the village. They also own one share, and they also get a salary when driving the horse.

The agreement between the horse-driving people in the village is to give them a guaranteed wage, and every day they work, there is a cent of silver dollars. Then at the end of the month, it is calculated based on the horse-drawn team's income. If the profit reaches the agreement, it will be dividends based on the excess income.

This treatment is very good, but not everyone is suitable for driving a horse gang. It must be someone who is strong and knows about horses and mules.

"Is this going out?" Qin Hu asked.

Seeing that the deputy township chief was coming, Chihei Mutu quickly stopped working and came over with a smile. He took out a pipe from his arms and handed it to Qin Hu.

"The bacon, pickled fish and some straw sandals in the village, were transported to the county."

Chihei Mutu knows his identity by just listening to his name. There are many Yi people’s surnames, which are said to be less than a few thousand. Chihei is a special one. It turns out that the term Chihei is a general term for those who were captured and sold to the Yi people as slaves. Because they are not Yi people born and raised by the Yi people, they are all called Chihei without the surnames of the Yi people.

This word originally means dog meat, and over time, it becomes a surname.

Therefore, those with the surname Chihei were basically slaves of the Yi people, and most of them were Han people. The name of Chihei Mutu means white horse, and Qin Hu had also been a slave in the past, so he was very polite to Tumu.

Qin Hu was asked to talk to him not long ago. Because of the fame of osmanthus, officials in Guiyang had long heard of his reputation. The Guizhou Governor thought Qin Hu was a very good sign, so he intended to let him come out to be an official. Qin Hu never thought that he could still be an official.

He refused, but the superior insisted. Qin Hu is now rich, and Guihuaxiang has opened more than 30 branches and several large workshops. He has hundreds of employees and pays a lot of taxes every year. He is a big taxpayer. Especially when he gets rich, he still doesn't forget to repay him. He has always donated money to build village primary schools, helps build bridges and roads, and takes care of the elderly and widows. He has a very good reputation.

Promoting him to be an official will certainly help enhance the prestige of the court in the local area.

In the end, his wife advised him to become an official. Guihuaxiang had already gotten on the right track. Now she has hired a special shopkeeper and manager to share it with them, and looked at these dozens of shops very well.

So, Qin Hu, a former Yi slave, became an official.

He started as the deputy township chief. Although he seemed to be a ninth rank small official, now that the boundaries of officials have been broken, and even juren have to start from the village as officials. Therefore, this starting point is not low.

Qin Hu returned to Shuixi and became the deputy township chief. He assigned him several villages to be squatting, which were also familiar places he used to. Looking at Mutu, Qin Hu made up his mind and when he turned back to the county for a meeting, he would react to the above, so that Han people like Chihei, who were formerly Yi slaves, would restore their names to the Han people.

"Leave later, let's have a meeting first." Qin Hu rolled up a cigarette for himself, lit it, and took a few sips. Then he said.

"Nothing happened." Mu Tu smiled, "Is there anything you want to take from the county town?"

Qin Hu shook his head and asked about the horse gang again.

"Is it okay to walk on the road?"

"Every village and all subway responded to the call to go to power, and organized road construction during the slack season. Each village built the road sections of each village. We strive to get every village to open. Now the road is easier to walk. However, it is still too simple. Basically, most places can only use mules and horses, and there is no way to get through. If it can be opened, it would be great. Then buy a few big carriages to transport goods, which is much easier."

Qin Hu smiled. It would be good to be able to build roads in every village first. It would be difficult to figure out the carriage for the time being.

"A meeting will be held in a while to talk about the road construction. The top should build a big road. From Guiyang to Kunming, and then from Kunming to Myanmar. It is thousands of miles away, and it is cleared through mountains and bridges when it encounters water. It is necessary to build a carriage that can be built."

"That's not thousands of miles away. Can this be achieved?"

"It depends on humans. As long as you are willing to repair it, it will certainly be able to be completed, but it is indeed difficult. Now the top call on us to organize road construction teams and horse teams to build roads." Qin Hu said.

As soon as these words were said, the faces of the horse-driving horses around the side changed slightly. Now everyone's life has indeed turned around, but the traffic here is blocked and life is still tight. Although the above has also withdrawn loans and helps with some mountain goods export.

"I'm afraid that the road will take a long time to repair, right?"

"The above plan is to practice for one year, first and then finish it." Qin Hu replied.

A young man couldn't help asking, "Is it that we should go over and build roads?"

Qin Hu suddenly understood the reason for the changes in everyone's expressions, and he laughed a few times.

"You have thought too much, but you can't see the court's policies? That is to help everyone get rid of poverty and get rich, so that everyone can live a life of food and clothing. The court allows everyone's children to study for free, and lend money to everyone to help everyone build an economy. Can you still trust the court?"

"Now everyone has divided the fields and houses, there are cattle and pigs behind the house, chickens and ducks, and the food taxes are low. This is all seen. Now the imperial court needs manpower and material resources to build roads, but it will not ask you to build roads in vain, nor will it be in vain to recruit your mule teams and ask for your things in vain."

"This time, from Guiyang to Kunming, from Kunming to Myanmar, there are thousands of miles of roads. There are a road that is ready to mobilize one million people to build roads on the entire line, and strive to build the roads in the autumn to cross the main roads. The road construction requires people, but it is not free labor, but people pay for wages, food and accommodation on the construction site, and wages."

"Really pay for wages?"

"Of course, when will the yamen not count when they speak?"

"Can you give that day give a lot?" someone asked again.

"You make a lot of money in a day when you drive the horse?"

"If you run a corner a day, if you run a lot in the month, the horse team earns more, you can still share dividends. You can still get some points every time you travel. As long as you don't have a break in a month, you will have five dollars in total." A horse driver was very proud of the money he earned. In this mountain, five dollars a month is a great treatment. It is considered a high salary in the eyes of villagers. If you can be a horse driver, you will immediately be favored by many young girls.

Qin Hu smiled, "When you arrive at the road construction site, you have to work points. The money will be calculated by the work points. If you earn more work points, you will have more money. For example, if you can't do anything, you will definitely get less work points. If you know more, for example, if you can drive horses and chariots, you will definitely earn more."

"I can tell you now that I will go to the construction site to build roads, which will not be less than what you earn when you drive the horse gang now."

"Then it takes one year to get back? What should we do if the crops in the family are there? What should we do with our horses?"

"Don't worry, you can scatter the roads when you go to build the rice. When you plant rice and harvest rice, you will definitely put some people back to scatter. Then organize women and children to help each other. As for your horses, you will also calculate the work points according to the horses you give them to, and you will also have money to take. If you bring your own tools, you will also calculate the money for you. In short, the court will not calculate us. If this road is repaired, it will be convenient for everyone. In the future, the transportation will be convenient for our food and local products to be transported out and sold."

"If you really want to be so good, don't coax us."

"What did Qin Hu coax you? Have you said the court has coaxed everyone? Let me tell you that the court has specially pulled out 100 million to build this road, 100 million, this road is paved with gold and silver. The court will not lose your wages."

Everyone was a little skeptical. If the court summoned them to build roads for free, they would still feel that it was normal. Now they asked everyone to build roads like this. They gave them a lot of wages, which made everyone feel unreal.

"One hundred million, how much is that? I'm afraid there will be a mountain together!"

Just now, the young horse-driving worker who was proud of earning five yuan a month was suddenly unable to calculate it. One hundred million yuan, how many five yuan would it cost.

"The current holy emperor is in power, and he is extremely wise and kind. Otherwise, how could he share land and houses for everyone? The imperial court wants to build roads to benefit our people in Yunnan and Guizhou, build a road and drive one side out of poverty and become rich, not to put a burden on us in turn."

Qin Hu was as confused as they were. Later, he went to the county town to attend the road construction preparation meeting, with people from Beijing on it. He explained the importance of building this road in detail. The construction of this road was not only to recover the three Xuan and Liu Hui, but also to strengthen the court's control over the southwest.

It is even more for the benefit of the people in the southwest.

The court should take this opportunity to build roads and further let the people understand that the court is for the good of the people. It should take this opportunity to let the people enjoy convenience and discounts.

We also need to use road construction to revitalize the backward economic outlook of Yunnan and Guizhou.

Wherever the road is built, it will drive the people from which side. Therefore, this time, the road construction was built, and local governments actively mobilized local people to participate in the road construction. They also wanted to make money and make it easier. They should not be dissatisfied with the court because of the road construction.

In some aspects, the construction of this road is also a large-scale labor-for-relief. It is not easy to simply withdraw money and pay money for the people of Yunnan and Guizhou. It is necessary to be proactive. It is useless to just give money, and the money will be used up.

But if the people are given money to build roads, the people will also get the money after they have built the roads. The people have spare money and the local governments will open the roads. In the future, they will have capital. With the help and driving of local governments, they can make the economy better and live a better life.

When Qin Hu heard these words for the first time, he was really shocked, but he believed in the court. What happened to him was the best proof.

When we heard that the road construction was made with money and food and accommodation, we changed our mood again. If we had the opportunity to go out to build roads and make money, this would of course be a good thing.

"Town Minister, how much labor is spent in our village? Can my kid go to earn work points and get money together?"

Qin Hu smiled, "The above asked us to go out to work in Dading Prefecture for eight thousand workers to build roads. Our Dading Prefecture has eight counties, so one county can do one thousand work. There are three towns and seventeen towns under our county, each township can do one hundred work."

When we heard that a township had only been working for 100 years, we couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. There are many villages in a township, but only ten people can be found in a village. In this way, there will be no chance of making money for children.

Qin Hu said, "One hundred people in a town is the basic requirement for the superiors. In fact, if everyone voluntarily goes to build roads, the court will also welcome it."

"Will you have money to build a road by volunteering?"

"Everyone gets the same job points. Of course, the young and strong man earns more job points than children and women."

"Woman can go too?"

"Whether it is a child or a woman, or even a 50-60-year-old or a teenager or a teenager, anyway, there are many people and great power. This time, the road construction is a section that is built by nearby prefectures and counties, so it is not far away. Everyone, young and old, can work together, and there are many people, and you can finish the work early.

The court was very eager to build this road, so the road construction plan was to start construction at the same time. The most basic part near local prefectures and counties also had a special engineering camp to open mountains and build bridges.

Building roads is a big project, but even the elderly and children still have a place to use.
To be continued...