The poor have no right to rest.

At most, it would be a family gathering on New Year's Eve, eating some good things that I usually don't want to eat, and then buying some fabric to make new clothes, which would be considered good.

People who are truly poorer have to work hard to survive. Where can they get so much leisure?

Therefore, it is the truth since ancient times that "there are wine and meat, and the road is frozen to death."

However, many dynasties have no idea of ​​the power of "whether kings, princes, generals and ministers are better than to give the people at the bottom", so they will basically die if they can't last for three hundred years.

What Dakang Chao did well was that it gave farmers a way out.

Without the crazy enclosure of the children of the royal family and nobles, and the strong business atmosphere of Dakang has led to a large number of workshops and greatly absorbing labor, so the landlords are not very interested in expanding their land.

After all, if there is too much land, people will need to farm. Many people go to workshops to work. After a year, they are busy three times the income and five times the income. What do you think they are willing to do?

This is the same as later generations who would rather do odd jobs than cultivate land and abandon their own land.

For example, Prime Minister Cao Yi's family has hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, but it is good to be able to cultivate two-thirds of the time. His family's share of the tenants is still 64% of the time. Although he gets 60% of the time, they have paid all the taxes and other things. In addition, he deserves the land tax, so he gets less than 40% of the time.

But even so, their tenants are still decreasing every year.

After all, it is Jiangnan, and the business atmosphere is extremely strong, and young people are unwilling to farm.

Even Cao Yi's family is like this, let alone those landlords of all sizes.

Therefore, overall, unless you encounter great natural disasters and man-made disasters, the farmers' lives are still OK.

Since the peasants have stabilized, the entire country has stabilized. This is the reason why there has been no rebellion and rebellion in Dakang for so many years.

Including the hundreds of thousands of fugitives who came to the Gyeonggi area in the second half of last year, both in the Gyeonggi area and in the Imperial Palace, they have received proper arrangements.

Those who appear in people's eyes on weekdays are all the victims of the Imperial Palace and the local poor.

In fact, in other parts of the Gyeonggi region, Gyeonggi Governor Xiong Wen-kyung is also doing the same thing.

It is their hard work that has led to the great improvement of many disrepaired roads, city walls and rivers in the Gyeonggi area over the past six months.

If it were on weekdays, there would be no such opportunity or expenditure budget at all.

Now, in order to protect the lives of the victims, the court and the emperor must of course take out a large amount of money to let them use labor for relief and do things that are beneficial to both sides.

To be honest, with this daily wage guarantee of 200 ounces, they earn more than at home.

Especially in winter, the honeycomb coal workshop at Liu Mingqi's home was established. The strong demand for honeycomb coal every day burst the entire workshop. Prince Yu's mansion hired 20,000 women and elderly people among the victims in one breath.

That's not all. Later, a honeycomb coal workshop with tens of thousands of people was established near the Imperial Capital City, which was specially provided to people in nearby provinces.

Even women and the elderly can earn a hundred pennies a day, and add bran porridge and steamed buns. The victims were so happy that they could never stop such a day.

It is the first month of the year, and there is some sun during the day, but it is still very cold in the morning and evening, and honeycomb coal is still an irreplaceable and important heating tool.

In addition, people in the city now use honeycomb coal to boil water and cook.

The price is much cheaper than firewood and very convenient. The court also subsidized every household and installed chimneys so there was no need to worry about honeycomb coal poisoning.

Therefore, there was a huge demand for honeycomb coal, and now, in order to prepare honeycomb coal for the victims of heavy snow disaster in six provinces, the work of twelve hours a day has not stopped.

Honeycomb coal has accumulated into hills in the workshop.

I am a little tired, but everyone is still very excited to work.

If you can make money, you will not suffer anything.

If you don’t have money to buy food and can’t support your family, that is the greatest sorrow in life.

...

Just as they were busy, Liu Mingqi drove to the first workshop of Fengwo Coal with Dazhu, Chi San, Fan Shan, and hundreds of guards.

It was very eye-catching along the way. After all, hundreds of elite horse-riding guards wearing simple armor should look at each other twice.

No matter how you look at it, it looks familiar.

Well, that's right too.

They were the former Yu Linwei who searched for the murderer who assassinated Liu Mingqi in the Gyeonggi area some time ago. Now that they are old, they have retired, and the emperor asked them to come to Prince Yu's mansion to be guards.

It also gave them a good way out.

Prince Yu's mansion is very rich and generous to his servants. They can definitely enjoy their lives here for the rest of their lives and let their parents, wife and children live a good life.

Therefore, except for the white armor of the Yu Wang Guard and the special horses of the Yu Lin Guard, the rest are the same except for the Yu Lin Guard's white armor.

Of course, the people at the Honeycomb Coal Workshop are also very familiar with Liu Mingqi, and even more familiar with the three general managers of Chi beside him.

As soon as they arrived, a group of teenagers who were working hard were shouted into the rest shed.

Originally, the first workshop of Honeycomb Coal only included women and the elderly, but when 10,000 people were recruited later, some families no longer had such labor and could only beg their 12 or 13-year-old boy to work.

There are about 2,000 teenagers in this group, and they are not as old as fifteen or sixteen years old. Wu Yeshuang, Miao Yan and Xiong Wenqing don’t want them, because they are worried that they are not strong enough, are not tenacious enough, and are afraid that something will happen.

But they are more sensible than the children of five or six years old, seven or eight years old, and they are eager to do more things for their families.

Liu Mingqi agreed readily.

The work in the honeycomb coal workshop is not heavy. Even if a 12 or 13-year-old boy is not strong enough to help with some miscellaneous work, or if two people are more suitable for one person, that is OK.

The Yu Mansion is not short of this money, and it can help more families survive this cold winter. This little money is nothing.

Besides, Liu Mingqi has traveled from modern times, and modern people do not regard human life as wild as the grass.

As a result, after the children arrived at the Honeycomb Coal Workshop, they worked harder than anyone else and dared to do any work, regardless of whether it was dangerous or not - of course there was no major danger.

By the way.

They also like to work overtime and work at night, because this will allow them to bring ten more steamed buns home in the morning.

Every afternoon before they start work, they will come to help with the work half an hour in advance.

People who "enjoy" the tools of "ninety-nine six blessings" are all trash here.

Apart from eating, the teenagers have no other shortcomings.

Liu Mingqi is here now, just for them.

Of course, there were not more than two thousand people coming, but more than three hundred people selected.

Before reporting to the emperor on New Year's Eve, Liu Mingqi had the idea of ​​expanding the staff of Prince Yu's Mansion again.

Liu Mingqi asked Chi San to instruct the team leaders below to select people based on the following conditions.

First, be hardworking and hardworking.

Second, be cheerful, serious and responsible.

Third, know how to be patient and be willing to take care of the weak.

Fourth, be honest and obedient, and act in a well-organized manner.

For all the above four points, the first level is achieved, and any three points are the second level.

Just choose these two levels.

Through observation and comparison over thirty days, these more than 300 people are among the best.

They didn't know what it was for, but they just seemed excited and nervous when they saw that the butler Chi and the little prince were there.

"I asked you here today because I had something to discuss with you." Liu Mingqi said herself.

He paused deliberately, and found that there was no child who could not hold back. He took the initiative to ask something, or showed a panic look, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Our Prince Yu's Mansion is doing a lot now, so more people need to join in." Liu Mingqi continued: "Chi Saner recommended me and said you are good. I wonder if you would like to come to Prince Yu's Mansion?"

A group of people looked at each other.

Many people are a little confused about Liu Mingqi's meaning.

They are used to being obedient, so they are not clamoring.

Chi Saner couldn't help but hold an iron trumpet and said, "My prince is asking you whether you want to become a servant of Prince Yu's mansion like me."

"willing!"

"willing!!!"

I understand now.

A group of children couldn't help but yell, their faces that were red from cold were full of excitement.

Idiots don't want to!

Their age is no longer considered children.

Whether at home or in the disaster-catchering area here, there are many things that need to be done to help adults in order to keep the family moving forward.

It is not as simple as saying a poor child to be a family.

Prince Yu's mansion has recruited a group of people among the victims before, but the number is very small. Compared with hundreds of thousands of victims, it is like a modern lottery.

Anyone who is recruited will attract many envious eyes.

When everyone was in a daze, they were able to enter Prince Yu's mansion and became the prince's servants. They had good food and clothing, and no longer had to worry about life, no longer had to worry about no place to live, and were wandering. The royal palace was in charge of the way out for their descendants.

Regardless of whether the facts are the case or not, everyone thinks so anyway, including the people who are recruited themselves.
To be continued...