After Bai Er left, Gu Xin closed the window, went back to bed, and lay there for a while before falling asleep.
The next day, Gu Hui went home on leave and found out she was engaged. She felt strange. Was this because they were afraid she wouldn't agree, and they deliberately chose a time when she wasn't on leave?
Uncle Gu said, "That's not how it is. The Peng family is so eager to have you as their daughter-in-law; they really value you."
Gu Hui thought about it and realized it made sense. The Peng family had five grandsons who were all of marriageable age, but none of them were engaged. There were also very few girls in Kuncheng. Hmm, the Peng family must be impatient.
But Peng Ze has been gone for a month, and not a single letter has come back?
Is the Crown Prince of Southern Xinjiang really that powerful?
Every time Gu Hui came back, she would talk to her sisters about business. She couldn't let her sisters do all the work while she got all the benefits for herself.
Her younger sisters insisted on giving it to her, since they were all family, and she couldn't refuse, so she tried her best to do what she could.
Knowing that Gu Xin and her group hadn't yet dried sweet potato starch, she offered to hand the task over to her.
There are more than a hundred women soldiers. Half of them have no parents or relatives, but the other half have families. Most of them are from Cizhou and Dingzhou. Now that the road has been repaired and Kuncheng is developing rapidly, it is feasible to bring them to Kuncheng.
Aside from families like the Peng family, the Gu family, and Princess Jinghe, the women in the family who could afford to join the army were all from poor families. The female soldiers from the Peng family received an income of five taels of silver a month, which was considered a form of support.
If we bring their families over to help with household chores, their lives will definitely be better than before.
So, Gu Hui went back to the camp in the afternoon and confirmed that more than 20 households could come.
The older folks work in the sweet potato starch factory, while others who want to take care of their families have other jobs that are just as good as farming two acres of barren land at home.
Hearing Gu Hui confirm all this so quickly, Gu Xin happily said, "Big sister, the families of the sisters in the camp will definitely live well here. If they don't know how to do anything else, they can help our family farm, which will also bring in income. Those who know carpentry can help Fourth Uncle, and those who know needlework can go to Sister Yu Mei's place. Soon the location of the Kunzhou dock will be finalized, and the dock will need helpers! If we come now, the first batch of people to buy houses will have much more benefits than later. If they want farmland, they can spend money to buy an acre or two, which will definitely be cheaper than buying it outside."
Gu Hui nodded. Wasn't that exactly what she had told those older women in the military?
The Gu family now owns an embroidery workshop, a winery, cave dwellings, a lumber mill, a cosmetics workshop, a paper mill, a restaurant, and a whole street of snacks.
Even if all the families of the female soldiers came, they wouldn't be afraid of not having work to do.
Moreover, the new policy introduced by Gu Shouxin is that the government will provide subsidies for those who move their household registration to Kunzhou. Specifically, the subsidy means that the price of land less than ten mu will be lower than that of other prefectures. You can choose where to build a house, and the government will not charge you this money. Instead, you will be given the area to build a house based on the population. Of course, those with money can buy a new house themselves.
This policy has been implemented for a long time. Given the previous cement incident, the officials of Cizhou and Dingzhou, which are closest to Kunzhou, have a very good relationship with Gu Shouxin. As long as Kunzhou develops, more people will pass through these two places, and these two places will also be able to benefit from it.
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