Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 44 The frightened bird
Su Shi shook his head repeatedly and said, "No, no, this principle is different."

Su Yun smiled and said, "Uncle, don't worry about this. Just think of it as creating employment opportunities for the people of Huangzhou and giving them a chance to earn money to supplement their family income. I can just raise the price a little bit."

Su Shi was stunned for a moment: "Employment? Your employment should not mean to study as in "Da Dai Li Ji·Zeng Zi Li Shi" [Day morning work, night and self-reflection], but to live and work in peace and contentment, that is, to engage in, so the word employment should mean to have a career?"

Hearing Su Shi quoting from classics, Su Yun felt admiration in his heart.

The word "employment" did not exist at that time, but with Su Shi's accumulation of knowledge, he only pondered for a moment and then understood the meaning of the word itself, and even found its source. It was really awesome.

Su Yun smiled and said, "That's exactly what I mean."

Su Shi nodded and said, "This is a good thing. You want to reclaim wasteland, and the people of Huangzhou will get a chance to work and earn some money to supplement their family income. Huangzhou will also have an extra piece of land. It's really the best of both worlds."

He wanted to teach Su Yun something, and said, "Your idea is similar to the government's relief for disaster victims.

Whenever a disaster occurred, officials from the imperial court would provide relief, but they would not usually give money or food directly. Instead, they would plan certain water conservancy projects, allowing the people to build water conservancy projects and get food. The imperial court got water conservancy projects, and the people got food, which was the best of both worlds.

However, this method costs much more than direct relief. After all, people have to do heavy work and eat much more. But the court still does this. Do you know why? "

Su Yun smiled and said, "The court's water conservancy project is the most superficial benefit. In fact, using work-for-relief can allow strong laborers to be involved in water conservancy construction, thus avoiding these strong laborers being idle and becoming a hidden danger of unrest."

"Work-for-relief?" Su Shi smacked his lips and said, "Ah Yun, your choice of words is really amazing. Whether it's employment or work-for-relief, they are both very accurate. It seems that I haven't copied the Hanshu in vain recently.

It is also remarkable that you can see through the imperial court's intentions behind the work-for-relief policy. Many officials in the capital do not understand this principle.

In the second year of Huangyou, Fan Wencheng was in charge of western Zhejiang. At that time, a great famine occurred in Wuzhong, and the bodies of those who starved to death were scattered all over the roads.

Duke Wen Zheng mobilized grain from the national warehouses and collected money and materials from the people to provide relief to the victims. His famine relief measures were very comprehensive.

The people of Wuzhong loved to race boats and perform Buddhist rituals, so Duke Wen Zheng encouraged the people to hold more competitions, and the prefect went out for outings and banquets on the West Lake every day.

He also summoned the monks in charge of various temples and told them: "During the famine years, the wages of migrant workers are the lowest. We can take this opportunity to vigorously build civil engineering projects."

As a result, the construction of various temples was very prosperous. The government also renovated warehouses and official residences, hiring more than a thousand people every day.

However, the officials impeached Wen Zhenggong for not sympathizing with the famine, for enjoying himself without restraint, and for building houses for the government and private individuals, which wasted the financial resources of the people.

Don't you know that Wen Zhenggong wants to use the surplus money to help the poor? Those who are engaged in trade and catering, craftsmen, and laborers, who rely on the government and private individuals for their livelihood, probably reach tens of thousands every day.

Most of those censors are well-educated, but none of them are as sensible as you, a child who has never read. Alas."

After saying this, he suddenly thought of something and quickly whispered to Su Yun: "You must not tell others what I said. I am a criminal official. If this word spreads back to the capital, someone will impeach me for attacking the court censors. Then it will be difficult to end it."

Su Yun looked at Su Shi and saw that he looked quite panicked. He sighed in his heart and then nodded quickly, saying, "Uncle, don't worry. I know the seriousness of the matter and will never leak a word." Su Shi had become a frightened bird.

After hearing this, Su Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Ah Hui and said, "You should also be careful, and don't say a word to anyone else!"

Ah Hui blinked and nodded, but he was thinking in his heart: "What are you going to say to the public? I don't understand a word of what you said!"

At this point, Su Shi was no longer in the mood to talk and walked away with his hands behind his back.

Su Yun did not comfort Su Shi. The psychological damage had to be slowly resolved by Su Shi himself. No one else could help him. He shook his head and continued to inspect the wasteland.

Then Su Yun and Ah Hui laughed and said, "Ah Hui, do you want to make money?"

Ah Hui's eyes lit up when he heard that and he said, "I want to! I want to dream about it! The thatched house in my house was built when my parents got married. It has been more than ten years. Now it can neither block the cold wind nor the cold rain. If I can earn some money, I will lay a new layer of thatch so that my mother will no longer suffer from the cold."

Su Yun smiled and said, "Okay, then you will be the one to contract this wasteland and recruit workers. Do you know how much a worker in Huangzhou earns per day?"

Ah Hui nodded and said, "I know. When my father was alive, he would go to the dock on the river to help out when he couldn't go fishing. If he had a meal at noon, he would earn fifty cents a day. If he didn't have any food, he would earn sixty cents. My father usually didn't want to eat, so he would bring some steamed bread with him and earn ten cents more."

Su Yun nodded and said, "I'll give you a price of one hundred coins a day. I don't care how you allocate it or how you arrange it. I only look at the progress. What do you think?"

Ah Hui was a little embarrassed and said, "Ah Yun, what you mean is that I go to recruit people to open up the wasteland, and I will be in charge of them. I can give them 60 coins a day out of the 100 coins, and I will take 40 coins for myself?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "Yes, it's up to you how to arrange it. I only look at whether the land reclamation is done in order and whether it can catch up with the sowing. The rest is up to you. Whether you want to include meals or not is up to you."

Ah Hui said in a panic, "I'm so young, I'm afraid if they find someone and they don't listen to me, then it will be bad if they delay Ah Yun's business."

Su Yun smiled and said, "I don't care, if you can earn the money, then earn it, if you can't, I'll find someone else.

There are ten mu of wasteland here. Even if we find thirty people to open up the wasteland, it will take at least a month to complete it. In other words, it is 3,000 coins a day, 90,000 coins a month. If each of you takes 40 coins, you can earn 1,200 coins a day, 36,000 coins a month. How much does it cost?"

Ah Hui counted on his fingers and said, "At least forty-six strings of cash!"

Su Yun looked at Ah Hui in surprise and said, "You are quite fast at arithmetic."

Ah Hui said: "I am very good at counting. When I was selling fish, the restaurant owners had to use an abacus to calculate. I can do mental arithmetic faster than them!"

Su Yun laughed.

(End of this chapter)