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Chapter 443 Road construction blocked
Ma Zhou has been very busy recently, the kind who doesn't touch the ground!
This is busier than when he was in Siping's legal department!

Work until midnight every day, and get up early in the morning to do things!
What route planning map, how much cement, sand and gravel is needed in what place, all of these need to be dispatched by him.

Wei Shuyu, who came here to work like him, is also the same.It's just that the two are responsible for different jobs!
After Wei Shuyu got the blueprint of the route planning, he needed to discuss compensation with the people whose fields or houses were occupied.

Chang'an County extends in all directions, not just one road in Chang'an.

It needs to connect the six surrounding counties, so six roads are needed!

And this road is not a straight road, but some places with bad geology need to be avoided!

In this way, it is inevitable that the route will be deviated and the road will be built on other people's fields!

The road to Chang'an has been solved, but there is a problem with the road to Haochou County!

Because several natural lakes were to be avoided, the route was drawn into fields.

Several other roads have also encountered such problems, but this time it did not go so smoothly!
In Guojiazhuang, farmers gathered at the head of the village.Originally heard that there was a concrete road going through their village, which made the villagers very happy.

In this way, it will be much more convenient for them to travel in the future!

But this road is going to take up their fertile land, is that okay?
There are also such precedents in the surrounding villages. It is said that the road builder also compensated those people.

As for the amount of compensation, I heard that it is calculated according to the area occupied by the road!
There was nothing at first, but Lizheng held a small meeting for everyone and analyzed it from beginning to end.

For an acre of land, if they build a road through the middle, it means that the entire acre of land has been occupied. After all, after you have finished building the road, it is impossible to replant the remaining land.Who knows if the remaining land can still grow things, and besides, is there any need to plant such a little bit of land?

What's more, what they compensated was only copper coins. According to the grain compensation of five shi per mu of land, the total compensation would be ten years!
But if you don’t build roads and occupy it, we can still plant that land for 20 or 30 years, and the children and grandchildren will be endless!
Now you only pay for ten years, no matter how you calculate this account, it is not worthwhile!
Some villagers are timid. After all, this is the imperial court building roads. If they obstruct, will they be sentenced.But Lizheng told them that his nephew was an official in Chang'an, so why would he ignore them?

The villagers knew about Li Zheng's nephew, and they felt relieved after receiving such an answer.

So when the person Wei Shuyu sent to talk about compensation, the villagers turned him back.

And the man left without saying anything, which made the villagers happy.It turns out that officials are like this, and they are not afraid of Lizheng's nephew!Ha ha ha ha……

After talking four or five times, they all ended in failure, so the man had to tell Wei Shuyu about the matter.

On Wei Shuyu's side, Ma Zhou kept urging, and the people who built the road were ready, but the planned route here hadn't been discussed yet.

This gave Ma Zhou a headache, so he urged Wei Shuyu directly!

As a result, Wei Shuyu had no choice but to fight in person!
When they came to Guojiazhuang, Wei Shuyu met Li Zheng and the villagers of Guojiazhuang.These people had been waiting at the entrance of the village early, and it seemed that they were waiting for negotiations.

Seeing such a situation, Wei Shuyu felt relieved, as long as it can be resolved as soon as possible.He also didn't want to use tough methods to deal with these villagers. His father often warned himself to love the people like his own son.

Therefore, he didn't want to use tricks on the villagers.

"Guo Lizheng, my official is Wei Shuyu, the person in charge of road construction in Chang'an County. I'm here to talk to you about compensation."

If it wasn't for Yongyetian this time, it wouldn't be like this!

"My lord Wei, this old man knows about this. It is a great thing for the court to build roads. We, the common people, are very grateful to us for taking up the land and paying compensation! Today's Majesty is really a wise king! You can think of us in everything. People! It's just..." Guo Lizheng held Wei Shuyu's hand affectionately and sincerely.

After a pause, he continued, "It's just that our village relies on Yongye Field over there for food. Now that Yongye Field has been taken over, we...we will have no food!"

Wei Shuyu had a smile on his face, but his heart was tense, this Yongyetian really couldn't be occupied.The Yongye fields in Datang are all planted with grain, and the other fields are all planted with fruit trees, hemp and so on.

If Yongyetian is occupied in this way, the common people will have no food, and the only compensation is copper coins, which will always be spent.

This was indeed overlooked in the original planning.

"Guo Lizheng, I understand that. But can you give up the land first? After I go back, I will apply to the household department to redeploy Yongyetian to your village!" Wei Shuyu immediately thought of a solution, clearing out the route first, Do not delay the process of road construction.

Then go to the Ministry of Households to apply for the distribution of these other fields to the villagers of this village.This is a good way, and you can do the same when you encounter such a situation in the future!
"This..." Guo Li was taken aback, he didn't expect this young official to come up with a solution so quickly.

"Guo Lizheng?" Wei Shuyu called out a few times when he saw him stunned.

"Ah! Oh...Master Wei, I don't know how long it will take to deploy Yongye Field? You also know that we ordinary people live on the fields. If we miss the spring plowing, the villagers will be hungry next year!" Guo Lizheng As expected of an old man, he immediately thought of the key point.

This time it was Wei Shuyu's turn to be stunned, and after making some calculations in his heart, he replied, "It won't take long, I think it will come soon. Only ten days and a half months!"

Go back and apply directly to the Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Communications will submit it to the Ministry of Households. I think it will be very fast.

Guo Lizheng was completely stunned, so fast?What about your own tasks?
"This... can we wait for Mr. Wei to confirm?"

"Huh?" Wei Shuyu frowned, and Guo Lizheng refused repeatedly.It made him feel like it was done on purpose, but he didn't think much about it, and replied: "Alright, I'll go back and declare. In just a few days, you get the villagers ready!"

Wei Shuyu thought to himself, go back and declare, and the villagers will tidy up the fields, so there will be no delay.

Guo Lizheng was ecstatic in his heart, giving himself crazy praises, hahaha...these officials are nothing more than that!

After sending Wei Shuyu away, Guo Li was in a hurry to go home, let his son pull him in a bullock cart, and headed towards Chang'an.

When he arrived in Chang'an, he quickly found his nephew and told his nephew what Wei Shuyu said.

The nephew said he knew, and asked his servants to give his family uncle a small box filled with copper coins.

After sending off the uncle, the nephew hurried out to report the situation.

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(End of this chapter)