Immediately, someone came up to the stage. It was a woman in her early twenties. She was a military dependent and didn't know how to sew. She hadn't been with Sun Yumei, so she came here to recruit the yamen runners.
"Miss Gu, please!"
Gu Xin's moves were all fierce, not focused on injuring anyone, but only on forcing people towards the arena.
Twenty moves, and they got him down.
Looking at the young woman who had been knocked off the stage, Gu Xin smiled and said, "My family is looking to recruit other people. You can give it a try."
Gu Xin pointed to one side, towards Uncle Gu, Cai Xiaolian, and Zhang Shi.
The young woman got up and went that way. In the end, she was taken in by Uncle Gu and was told she would work in the fields for fifty coins a day, starting from clearing the land.
Gu Xin continued to exchange blows.
In one hour, out of fifty candidates, only eleven passed.
She wanted to try again, but Gu Shouxin called her down and Gu En took her place.
Gu En also had an hour to finish, and Gu Si was the last to arrive.
In the end, Gu Shouxin recruited thirty-five yamen runners, and Grandpa Gu helped him register them.
The rest who weren't selected either went to work on the farm with their uncle, were chosen by Gu Nian to work in the laboratory, or were chosen by Cai Xiaolian to train people for the restaurant.
Gu Shouxin originally wanted to select a few literate people to do some document editing work for the government office, but he received a message from the emperor the day before that all the other government officials sent to him by the court would arrive in the first month of the lunar calendar, so he waited.
After the constables were selected, Gu Shouxin handed over the daily routines of the constables, which had been listed before, to Zhang Cheng and Zhao Hu. They just had to follow this routine every day.
When they finished eating that night, Uncle Gu was quite happy. With so many more people suddenly, he wondered how many emperors he would have to summon!
Gu Xin suddenly thought of something: "Dad, what do you think about us talking to Grandpa Peng and asking him to have all the soldiers use the outhouses in one place? We'll build those outhouses for them and make sure they're clean. Do you think he'll agree?"
Gu En: "Third sister, when you say this while we're eating, I feel like the food doesn't taste as good."
Uncle Gu tapped Gu En: "Which of the vegetables you eat didn't grow from poop? And you're complaining about it?"
Gu Nian immediately understood Gu Xin's idea: "Xin Xin, you mean, if we build latrines in a unified manner, then there will be enough excrement?"
Gu Xin nodded: "That's right! When we were in the capital, there were people collecting night soil every day. I asked, and the uncle who collected the night soil has dozens of acres of land! He can also sell it to the people on the estate. The Peng family has an army of 100,000. If we build latrines for them, we can just go to the latrines and transport the fertilizer directly to the fields. Wouldn't the crops grow better? Before, our latrines were mostly filled with animal excrement, but I don't see that the people here raise pigs or chickens much. Uncle has reclaimed so much land, and even if we have seeds, there won't be enough fertilizer, so the crops won't grow as well!"
Cai Xiaolian put down her chopsticks and said, "This is feasible. Father, you should discuss it with General Peng. He should be willing. We can also build a few public latrines in the corners of the city. That way, the city will be cleaner. The day before yesterday, I went out and came home late. I saw someone relieving themselves under a tree. It's cold now, so I don't feel anything. But when it gets hot, the stench will probably be smelled throughout the whole city."
Grandma Gu also put down her chopsticks: "When I went to Old Xiao's place, I met a few women who had lived here for several years. They also talked about this. Some people are too lazy to take out their night soil, so they go out at night to relieve themselves in a place a little further away from their homes, and the smell is on other people's houses. Little do they know, other people are also coming to their doorsteps to relieve themselves."
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