After rebirth, I went from a peasant girl to the richest man

The twelve horses were riding very fast. Bai Qingyun watched for a while and then turned around and prepared to go back.

As for the things to be explained, Bai Qingyun was not worried.

Even if he bypassed Wen Zhao and took the princess' or Han family's jade pendant, it would not be difficult to make some plowshares with iron in Jiangzhou City.

But even if Bai Qingyun had the jade pendant, he couldn't find the door, so he had to leave it to Twelve.

When Bai Qingyun returned home in the evening, he saw that his father and mother looked a little tired.

As soon as Bai Qingyun saw them, he stepped forward and asked happily, "Dad, Mom, it seems that recruiting people today went smoothly!"

It was obvious from the two of them that they had hired too many people and were so exhausted.

Father Bai and Mother Bai looked at each other and replied with a wry smile: "No, we only recruited five people today."

The original plan was to recruit 40 people from the nearest village. The villages in Jiangzhou were not like those in Bingzhou. There were many small rivers and lakes, few places suitable for living, and arable land had to be reserved. Therefore, the Jiangzhou government controlled the number of people in the village to a large extent.

Excluding the special case of Dayang Village, a new village, the village with the smallest population has at least four or five hundred people.

Given the huge base, it is not difficult to recruit forty people.

Therefore, the Bai family did not think about the situation of not being able to recruit people. Grandma Bai even asked her family to prepare food for forty people tomorrow.

But with the facts before him, Bai Qingyun couldn't help but wonder: "Didn't Dad and Mom explain to everyone the daily wages?"

Today, a recruitment notice was posted outside the city of Jiangzhou Prefecture. The workers who will dig the canal will be provided with food and accommodation, and will receive a monthly wage of 500 wen. Carpenters, blacksmiths and other craftsmen will not only be provided with food and accommodation, but will also receive a monthly wage of 800 wen.

This kind of wages is set for people who are trying to escape. The wages are set very low so that the workers can buy some basic clothing.

In the eyes of the original people of Jiangzhou, these were not enough. After all, a random laundry job in Jiangzhou City would earn more than this.

But as long as they worked diligently for a year, the government would allocate newly built houses along the canal to them and help them settle in Jiangzhou, and they would have Jiangzhou citizenship from then on.

The construction of the houses started at the same time and was planned by the government.

Bai Qingyun was also somewhat envious of the location of the new village. Although it was not too close to the newly built canal, it was not too far either.

When the canal is completed in the future, there will be a constant stream of passenger and merchant ships coming and going, and the docks along the river will surely be very busy.

But the Bai family's wages were already 150 wen a day, which was even dozens of wen higher than the wages in Jiangzhou City.

Bai's mother shook her head slightly: "I've already said it, but..."

"Hey~ When everyone heard that we were here to cultivate the land, they all advised us to plant less."

Today, Mr. and Mrs. Bai kept hearing the voices of persuading them to plant less.

"Pfft~"

The whole family sat around a table and couldn't hold back any longer.

The two men went out in high spirits, but came back with defeated looks on their faces, their ears hallucinating from the noises.

"Those people are afraid that we will end up with nothing and won't be able to pay their workers, so they have no intention of coming."

Mother Bai's face turned slightly red due to the teasing of her family members, and she lowered her head feeling a little embarrassed.

Father Bai was thicker-skinned and continued talking.

"Little one, I heard that you made a new farming tool today?"

The whole family was busy during the day and had no time to go and see. Only the enthusiastic villagers knew that the Bai family was very busy recently and would take the initiative to help when they were free. They took this opportunity to talk to the Bai family.

"Yes, after we finish plowing Uncle Lin Sheng's land today, we will send it to our fields tomorrow."

The original intention of making the curved plow was to allow one's own fields to catch up with spring plowing.

Other families with a few acres of land could catch up with them if they tried hard, but the Bai family would never be able to catch up without the help of the curved plow.

The sooner you use it, the sooner you can finish it.

"Mom and Dad, when the five people arrive tomorrow, you can let them use them directly. I'll ask Twelve to go to the city to make some more plowshares. If things go well, a batch will arrive tomorrow."

It’s just that the villagers of Dayang Village are helping to cut down trees, and we will need to give them some of the trees when the time comes.

"When the curved plow is finished, the rest of the villagers should be finished. Then we can ask them to help. The wages will be as agreed."

There is no way. Once people's cognition is limited, it is difficult to change their minds.

Instead of spending time trying to change those people's perceptions, it's better to just hire people who don't have such stubborn ideas.

Once the canal in Jiangzhou is dug, those people's ideas will gradually change, but it is destined to be a long process.

"Okay, then we'll just stay at home tomorrow and not go out to recruit anyone."

I was originally thinking of going to Jiangzhou City to try to recruit people tomorrow, but after hearing Bai Qingyun's idea, I suddenly understood.

Not only does it solve the problem, but it also saves me from having to listen to others' questions tomorrow. It really kills two birds with one stone!

"Yun'er, where's Twelve?"

During the long journey, the whole family has become accustomed to having someone always following them.

That person is always good at hiding himself, but the family members are still used to looking for that familiar figure in the corners of the house.

Only this time, there was no one in that corner.

"After Twelve finished his business in Jiangzhou, I asked him to go back directly."

As for where to go back to, everyone knew it and didn't ask any further.

As for Wei Xi's recent situation, Bai Qingyun has always kept it secret, so there is no need to say anything.

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The next day, Dayang Village became lively early as usual.

The five people who came to work must have gotten up early and rushed here just as the Bai family had finished dinner.

Bai Qingyun followed his father and mother to the fields and taught the five people how to use the curved plow, and then went to Carpenter Yang.

"Bai girl, you're here! Look, the second curved plow is only missing the plowshare."

The small yard of Carpenter Yang's house is now full of wood, and the villagers' execution ability is as strong as ever.

It is also true that the first time is unfamiliar, the second time is familiar.

The second time, the bends were made with more details, and even polished for aesthetics.

"Uncle, let's make a few more racks before the plowshare comes!"

Without the plowshare, the assembly cannot be completed, but the large frames are basically fixed, so it will not affect the assembly after the plowshare arrives.

"Okay, then I and everyone else will hurry up and do more."

In fact, we wanted to do more, but Bai Qingyun never came, and everyone was afraid that it would be all in vain in the end.

After all, chopping down a tree with an axe is not easy.

Especially during this busy farming season, I’ll take time out to help.

But until noon, no plowshare had arrived, and Bai Qingyun began to feel nervous.

Could it be that for the first time, the promise made in front of everyone is going to be broken?

Even while eating lunch, I was thinking about the possibility that the man couldn't find the way.

I even planned to ride a horse along the road towards the city in the afternoon to look for people.