The villagers naturally believed what the county magistrate said, but the conditions were so good that they wanted to confirm it.
Now a strong laborer only earns 20 cents a day, and these ladies can also earn 20 cents a day. They are really surprised.
Zhao Guoliang rushed over quickly and saw that there were three or four hundred people. He felt that they had to be separated, otherwise they would all be crowded together and unable to work.
Zhao Guoliang pulled Zhang Hulan aside and said, "Hulan, do you think this will work? Take some of the people who dug the fish ponds out and let them lead these people to work. Each person can lead 20 to 30 people to work separately."
"Uncle Lizheng, do you mean to divide the wasteland into pieces, and then which piece should be used for work?"
Zhao Guoliang nodded, "Yes, that's it. If the land is divided like this, we can tell at a glance which people are working or not."
Zhang Hulan smiled and nodded. "Okay, I'll follow your instructions."
"Okay, I'll register them first. I don't know who will come later. I'll register them and divide them into groups, and their group leaders will be responsible for counting the number of people every day."
Even though people with education do things differently, they can arrange everything properly.
Zhao Guoliang took out a pen and paper to register his name. Before he started, Zhang Hulan said loudly to the villagers, "I welcome you to come and work. But I have to say this: you must work hard and not be lazy. If you are just here to get by, you should go back. I don't need such people here."
Many villagers said, "Don't worry, Madam Zhang, we will never be lazy."
Zhao Guoliang began to register the villagers. There were dozens of people working in Daping Village, and Zhao Guoliang registered their names as well.
But in the end, there were still more than thirty people who had not registered.
Among these thirty-plus people, some are almost seventy years old; some have poor legs and feet, and some have only one arm.
An old man walked up to Zhang Hulan and bowed, saying, "Mrs. Zhang, we are a little old, but we are good at work and have plenty of strength."
The old man then pointed to the people with bad legs and missing arms and said, "Although they are disabled, they can work without any problems. We can ask for less wages. Can you accept us?"
Just as Zhang Hulan was about to speak, Old Man Zhang suddenly asked the disabled people, "Were you soldiers before?"
One of them looked at Old Man Zhang and asked, "You too?"
Old man Zhang nodded. "I was a soldier, but I didn't go to the battlefield. We won the battle halfway and came back. What year did you join the army?"
The man replied: "The third year of Yongsheng."
Old man Zhang said, "I was a soldier in the eleventh year of Yongsheng."
The man said, "I was shot in the thigh and retired in the eighth year of Yongsheng. The others were also injured and retired between the eighth and tenth years of Yongsheng."
Old Man Zhang said, "The eighth year of Yongsheng was the worst time of fighting, and many people died. You are lucky to have survived the battlefield."
The man sighed, "Alas, there are only a few veterans in our county who retired at that time who are still alive."
A few old soldiers started chatting like this, and Zhang Hulan did not disturb them.
The Yongning Kingdom had been established for less than a hundred years when the young Emperor Yongsheng ascended the throne. The people of the northern grasslands took advantage of the old emperor's death to invade the Yongning territory from the south.
Although Emperor Yongsheng was young, he was a man of great talent and strategy, and he fought the grassland people for more than ten years. Countless men of Yongning Kingdom were killed and wounded, but in the end they won the battle.
Because too many men of Yongning State were killed or injured, after driving away the grassland people, Emperor Yongsheng ordered all soldiers under the age of 20 to retire, return home, marry and have children, and cultivate talents for Yongning State at home.
After several decades of recuperation, Yongning State regained its vitality. Now Emperor Yongsheng has abdicated, and it is now the fifteenth year of Yongxing.
During the fifteen years since Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne, he has worked hard to govern the country, making Yongning Kingdom prosperous and its people strong.
Zhang Lao Han was sixteen years old when he joined the army. He trained for three months and went to the battlefield, but he returned halfway. This is why Zhang Lao Han named his two sons Tiger Infantrymen. He also hoped that there would be a chance for his two sons to go to the battlefield.
As a result, there was peace for decades, and the grassland people never invaded the border again. Then Old Man Zhang placed his hopes on his two grandsons.
After talking with a few veterans for a while, Old Man Zhang turned to Zhang Hulan. Before Old Man Zhang could speak, Zhang Hulan said, "Dad, you take care of the arrangements for these uncles."
Old man Zhang nodded, "Okay, okay..."
Old man Zhang said to the old soldiers, "Let's go home first. This is my daughter. You can treat her as your own daughter from now on."
Even though Old Man Zhang and those veterans were not soldiers of the same period, nor were they comrades who had fought on the battlefield together, there was still a sense of intimacy between them.
Zhang Hulan also has a sense of awe for the veterans. No matter what dynasty, without these soldiers who sacrificed their lives and shed their blood on the battlefield, there would be no stable life for future generations...
There were five old soldiers, three of whom were lame and two of whom were missing arms.
Old man Zhang took the five people home, and Zhang Hulan asked the other older people to stay as well, and asked Zhao Guoliang to arrange some easier work for them.
Afterwards, Zhang Hulan picked out a few women who looked clean and simple, and asked them to go to their homes and bring the pots, steamers and flour to Shanzi's house to steam buns.
There was definitely no place for them to stay here, so she could only let them go to Shanzi's house.
When Zhang Hulan arranged all these and returned home, Old Man Zhang waved at her, "Hulan, come here."
Zhang Hulan stepped forward, and Old Man Zhang introduced them one by one, "This is Uncle Huang Zhong..."
"This is Uncle Xu Hu..."
"This is Uncle Luo Changqi..."
"This is Uncle Yuan Gang..."
"This is Uncle Dong Jianyong..."
When Old Man Zhang introduced someone, Zhang Hulan would call him "Hello, Uncle".
Luo Changqi and Yuan Gang were missing an arm, and the other three had leg injuries and walked with a limp.
After the introduction, Old Man Zhang looked at Zhang Hulan and asked in a negotiating tone: "Dani'er, can Dad ask you for a favor?"
"Dad, what are you talking about? I am your daughter, you can tell me what I want to do."
Old man Zhang smiled and nodded, "It's like this, your uncles were injured and came back from the battlefield, and because they are all disabled, they haven't started a family, and they don't have any relatives or younger generations.
Dad wants to ask you if you can ask your uncles to stay for a long time. Dad is asking this because he sees that you have the ability to do so now..."
"Okay." Zhang Hulan agreed without any hesitation.
Not to mention that she was willing to help these veterans. These veterans are all treasures. Don't look at their age and disabilities. Although they haven't been on the battlefield for decades, these five people still have a murderous aura. Zhang Hulan's business will grow bigger and bigger in the future, and she needs people like this.
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