Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

The little Aji squatted on the ground with his butt naked and pulled out the withered weeds.

The tenacious weeds drew red marks on little Aji's palms. If the force was not right, it would scratch his hands, but little Aji was used to pulling weeds like this.

This has been one of his jobs since he could walk.

But now no matter how old or young the family is, whenever they have free time, they will go to the fields and the wild to look for weeds and branches.Not only their house, but also the neighbors nearby. It didn't take long for little Aji to find no weeds around the door of the house, so he could only run behind Ajie's buttocks into the field.

When the weeds in the field were also pulled out, the older children started to run further into the wild.

But children under the age of seven were not allowed to go with them, saying that they were afraid that wolves would come and drag them away.

It took Aji a long time to pull out a small box of weeds, which made him a little sad. He hoped to be praised by his family and to be more useful.

"Aji, come back for dinner!" His mother called him.

Aji picked up the basket and ran home.

His great-grandfather, his father and his sister had already arrived home and were talking.

Ajiniang frowned: "The food at home has already bottomed out. After eating this meal, there will be nothing dry to eat tomorrow. We can only eat watery food. Even if it is watery, we can't hold back a few meals."

Aji's grandmother quickly put the food on the table, and said: "I don't need to eat, and I can save some more. I discussed it with my sister, and my sister also asked other people to ask. Everyone is going to go to the Lord, please. The lord sold us, we are not very old, we can do some work after selling, and we should be able to exchange for some food."

Before Aji's parents could speak, Aji's grandfather said angrily: "Why are you going to sell you! Our family is not so difficult."

Aji Niang hurriedly said: "Aniang, you don't have to go, Da Ya and I don't eat much, we all save a little, and we can still survive for a while."

Sister Aji nodded quickly.

Papa Aji shook his head, wiped his face and said, "The lord called everyone today to say that there is no need to worry about winter, there will be work for us in winter, and there are also three copper coins every day."

There was some joy on Ajiniang's face, but she was still a little worried: "I heard that those newcomers are also digging canals. How long can a canal be dug? Does the lord really have so much work for so many people?"

"Do you think it's easy to dig a canal?" Aji's father didn't understand it very well, but he still said proudly: "It's not as simple as just digging a ditch on the ground. It depends on the location. When you encounter a mountain, you have to open it. The rock has to be dug through, and the right place has to be selected. If the choice is not right, it has to be dug again. In addition, the excavated canal has to be consolidated and cemented. Once it’s built, it’s already fast.”

Ajiniang felt relieved, "That's good."

But after a while, she asked worriedly: "I heard that there seems to be something weird going on over the canal?"

Father Aji and grandfather looked at each other with strange expressions on their faces.

"It's not a bad thing." Grandfather Aji said: "Everyone says that Bailuling is helping us secretly and rewarding us. The harder we work and the better we work, the more Bailuling will help us. But if we are lazy and don't work hard , Bailuling will not only stop helping us, but will punish the entire Bailuling."

Aji's grandmother clasped her hands together and said silently: "Bai Lu Ling blesses us, we must work hard."

Aji's father and Aji's grandfather sat down at the wooden table first, and then called the rest of the family to sit down and eat quickly.

Ajiniang served everyone gnocchi soup, which was spread by the lord's mansion, because the method is simple and delicious, and almost all the white deer leaders have learned it.Now the noodle soup has replaced the wheat flour paste and has become one of the most common foods on the table of the Bailu collar.

Grandfather Aji saw that there were quite a lot of gnocchi in his and his son's bowls, but the bowls of the women and children in the family were almost full of soup, and immediately frowned: "The steward said that copper coins are issued every ten days, and tomorrow will be The day when the salary is paid. When you get the money, the child will take care of the baby. Tomorrow, you and the child's mother will go to the Lord's Mansion to see if you can exchange some food and come back, all in exchange for wheat flour."

"Is there any food for us in the Lord's Mansion? Didn't the tax officials take it away?" Grandma Aji asked.

"The caravan sent by the lord is back. Didn't you see it? Those little giants. I heard that they brought back a lot of food."

Ajiniang interjected: "Those little giants can eat one by one. I don't know if the food they brought back is enough for them to eat."

Father Aji scooped up some of the gnocchi in his bowl and distributed them to the eldest daughter and youngest son, saying: "That's something that bothers the lord. Since the steward said that the lord's mansion has food in exchange for us, there must be some. And the little one Giants eat a lot and work hard, you didn’t see that there are about twenty of them digging the most difficult rocky mountain, and hundreds of us can’t dig a few meters of ditches, and they can smash dozens of meters in a day.”

Hearing such good news, the dinner table at Aji's family finally became lively.

When he was about to finish eating, Aji's father suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I also heard a good thing from the steward today. After winter, the Lord's Mansion asked every family to send children under the age of 13 to the Lord's Mansion, so that every day Go, go home at night. The Lord's Mansion will manage a meal."

Aji's grandmother and mother all looked up at Aji's father, their faces were not happy, but full of horror.

Although they are closed here, they have also heard some rumors. For example, the lords of a certain place like to eat fresh and tender dolls the most. Many dolls who entered the lord's mansion never returned home. Other lords, the most terrifying thing is that some lords will sacrifice children to the gods and even demons in exchange for benefits.

There is a white deer spirit in the white deer collar, what if the lord wants to sacrifice?

Moreover, the lord has obviously benefited from Bailuling. They have two sweet water wells that can produce water, and they also got melon seeds that they have never seen before.

The Lord's Mansion planted a crop of melons before the autumn harvest, and now it is said that they all bear fruit.

Sister Aji hugged her younger brother who was licking the bowl. Neither she nor her younger brother were 13 years old. She was ten years old and her younger brother was only four years old.

Aji thought that his sister wanted to eat the gnocchi in his bowl. Although he was a little bit reluctant, he still pushed the bowl to his sister.His grandma said that if his sister treats him well, he should also treat her well.

Sister Aji is even more reluctant to part with this precious brother.

Father Aji saw that the family had become quiet, and looked at the whole family in surprise: "What are you worried about? The steward said to study... Yes, that's the word, how to work for the Lord's Mansion after studying. You forgot Before the lord also took away a group of children, not all of them are doing well now, those children are now doing things with the stewards, I heard that when they finish their studies, they will all become stewards, even now, they get as much money as us, just You don’t need to do hard work to write and draw.”

Aji's family breathed a sigh of relief.

Ajiniang doubted: "There is such a good thing, let the dolls go to the lord's mansion to study, and the lord's mansion will take care of the food?"

"I heard that you can also work." Father Aji gave everyone a reassurance pill, "Working while studying, just like an apprentice."

How hard is the apprenticeship?When encountering a master with a bad temper, he was beaten and scolded, and all his work was for nothing before leaving the teacher.But when Aji's family heard that the child was going to be an apprentice in the Lord's Mansion, they felt much more at ease.

"The new lord is different from the previous lord. I thought that young master..."

"Shut up! Don't talk nonsense!" Grandpa Aji changed his face, "The good times are too many, don't you, even the lord dares to talk nonsense."

Aji Niang hurriedly slapped her mouth lightly, and she didn't dare to mention the quality of the lord anymore, she just said: "Aji is still young, can he go too? Da Ya is a girl, does the lord's mansion also accept female apprentices?"

Aji's father didn't quite understand either: "The steward said that there will be a detailed explanation in two days, and we will know when the Lord's Mansion speaks."

When Aji heard his name, he puffed out his small chest, wanting to say that he was also very capable, but unfortunately no one paid any attention to him.

The next day, the entire White Deer collar was talking about sending their children to the Lord's Mansion as apprentices. Some families had run out of food and wished to send their children away quickly. No matter how the Lord's Mansion treated their children, at least one meal would be taken care of there a day.

Butler Bafu and others are also discussing this matter with Tang Bo.

Tang Bo asked people to spread the news in advance, just to give the villagers a little psychological preparation, lest he suddenly said that he would summon the children to study and spend the winter in the Lord's Mansion, and the people in the whole territory thought that he would treat their children as meat in winter.

"Under the age of 13, both men and women can be sent. It doesn't matter if you are young, as long as you are weaned, let the maids in the house take care of you for a while. I will let them teach them some simple numbers and read them stories."

Tang Bo originally wanted young men and women under the age of 20 to come to study in the Lord's Mansion, but local men and women over the age of 13 are considered strong laborers, and it is impossible for each household to let them come to the Lord's Mansion to study all day without using their strong laborers. His domain is also in desperate need of a lot of labor now.

Burning lime in the mountains, making cement, burning bricks and tiles, building houses, digging and constructing canals and reservoirs, mining iron ore, including sending caravans and preparing logistics, etc., the entire White Deer collar, regardless of gender, is almost devoted to it. Really not enough.

In order to speed up the progress, Tang Bo used [Call on Call] every day to secretly summon the leaders of the Three Trees to help dig the canal at night.

This also led to some weird legends in the White Deer collar.

In order to prevent the leaders from becoming dependent, Tang Bo also secretly guided public opinion, saying that those strange things were the rewards given by the Bailu Ling to the hardworking Bailu leaders, otherwise they would punish and bring disasters.

From the current point of view, these rumors of his guidance have had a fairly good effect, and the white deer leader is working more diligently.

"How long will it take for the classroom to be built?" Tang Bo asked the housekeeper.

The steward replied unhurriedly: "The bricks and tiles and the first batch of cement produced have already been used by our lord's mansion. The bricklayers have also been mobilized, and the foundation has been laid. The leading bricklayer said that it will be ready before the end of October." Build the house."

Tang Bo shook his head: "It must be completed before October [-]."

The butler didn't evade, and just said: "Then it's only less than 30 days, I'll ask them to step up, and if it doesn't work, find some more people."

Tang Bo: "Don't look for any more people. It's just three connected brick houses, plus a fireplace in each classroom. I haven't asked them to lay a fire path. How difficult can it be? All the materials have been prepared for them I will get them some more useful building tools within three days, and there are 30 of them in total, and [-] days is enough for them to build the classroom.”

Tang Bo's face turned cold: "If the classroom I want can't be built before October [-], or if the quality fails, these bricklayers will all be reduced to slaves."

The butler bent down: "Yes."

Tang Bo asked again: "Is the store ready?"

The butler replied: "You have low requirements for the store, even an adobe house is fine. The bricklayers said that the house can be used when the mud is dry. It's only these two days."

"It will open today. I will send the needed goods to the warehouse of the store so that people can count the numbers. Many people in the territory have run out of food, and today is the payday. Some people may come to buy food after noon, and the people in the territory cannot be allowed to buy food. Wait a little longer. The mud house is not completely dry yet, so we set up a stall outside, there must be a lot of people in the first few days, you need to arrange more guards." Tang Bo said clearly.

"Yes."

"The store still needs to build a new house, but it's not in a hurry now. Let's deal with it first. Next year, our territory will be re-planned. Before that, we will use the mud house to deal with it first. The manager of the store is temporarily under the overall responsibility of you, the housekeeper. , After those children are familiar with it, then choose the right person to take charge."

"Yes."

Tang Bo handed the wooden sign with store employees on it to the housekeeper, "This is the list, and you will be responsible for these people in the future."

"Okay." The butler took the wooden sign.

The store staff selected all ten-year-old boys and girls trained by Tang Bo before. Four people were selected from the 30 people, three were in charge of the store, and one was in charge of the warehouse management.

Back then, the steward and the others felt that Tang Bo was wasting money, but now they all felt that the lord had the foresight.The training of these thirty children is so worthwhile. Not only can they write, but they can also do arithmetic. During this period of time, their role is extremely obvious. Stewards like Tian Min, Yanren, will fight for these children.

In fact, the store does not need as many as four people, but Tang Bo regards the store as one of the important training points, and intends to rotate all the children who he thinks are fairly clever in the store, so that they can actually get in touch with business transactions, learn management and sales, and Learn to deal with people, etc.

"Jia Dou, you will send a message to the villages tomorrow, asking them to bring money to the store in the Lord's Mansion in exchange for the things they need, including food, needlework, and pots and pans, etc."

Immediately afterwards, Tang Bo began to deal with the emergencies and emergencies reported by various management newspapers.

For example, some people fight, some people bully women, some people steal, some people cheat and so on.

"I will expel the new legal provisions of the territory within ten days. During this period, the previous laws will be used first. However, all punishments must be made known to me and my consent can be implemented. Before that, people should be locked up."

"Yes." All the stewards responded.

Tang Bo has a headache. It is not difficult to formulate new legal provisions. The difficulty is that he cannot find suitable judges and police detectives.

Investigating cases is not an easy task, but now the so-called investigations almost all rely on the investigators' intuition and everyone's impressions. Unjust cases often occur, not to mention that some people deliberately make wrong judgments, and some people use this to murder others and so on.

Tang Bo can be a judge first, but who will investigate the case?

You can't rely on him to do everything in the territory.

Tang Bo looked around the room, and finally fell on the face of Gu Ding who was a bit bored.

This kid is very shrewd, he learns very fast, has a good brain, and is very good at hiding his tracks. He is small and not easy to attract attention. If there is no other person who is more suitable for investigating the case, maybe he can try to let him The little guy took over as a police detective in the Territory.

Besides, the cases in the territory are not too difficult to investigate now. Apart from being a police detective, Gu Ding still has enough time to learn more knowledge.

Ok, deal!